Sound muted or turned low

Jude DaShiell jdashiel at panix.com
Mon Aug 20 15:35:42 UTC 2018


no!  you type rm -fr ./.config/pulpulse ; reboot <enter>  That semicolon
allows more than a single shell command on a line.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018,
Daniel Crone wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:24:49
> From: Daniel Crone <dcrone215 at gmail.com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> Cc: Nick Wood <nick at microlitesoftware.co.uk>,
>     ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Sound muted or turned low
>
> Hello.  Thank you for what I have so far.
> I mounted the hard drive, am and in the home dir now.?Do I type rm -fr
> And then enter?
> And on next line
> Type $HOME/.config/pulse;reboot
> Thanks, I am using an ubuntu mate dvd, even though my system has a different ubuntu type.
> > On Aug 20, 2018, at 7:51 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Another shorter possibility is rm -fr $HOME/.config/pulse;reboot
> > When pulse returns on reboot, system defaults will return.
> > On Mon, 20
> > Aug 2018, Nick Wood wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:54:17
> >> From: Nick Wood <nick at microlitesoftware.co.uk>
> >> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Subject: Re: Sound muted or turned low
> >>
> >> Hi Daniel,
> >>
> >> When this has happened to me I usually find that removing or renaming the
> >> .config/pulse directory in my home folder is enough to reset everything.
> >>
> >> Can you SSH into the machine from somewhere else, or log in as a different
> >> user?
> >>
> >> I have learned to have a second user account set up so that if I mess up the
> >> sound on my main user I can still log in with sound to sort things out.
> >>
> >> I guess you could boot off the live DVD, open up a terminal session and rename
> >> the /home/<username>/.config/pulse directory and see if that helps.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
> >> On 20/08/18 12:27, Daniel Crone wrote:
> >>> Yesterday I messed up the sound settings in my linux system.
> >>> Is there a way to use my ubuntu dvd I installed from in order to go in to my
> >>> system and unmute or turn up my sound?
> >>> I hear orca at log in but not after logging on.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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