Sound muted or turned low

[Daniel Crone]

That did it.
Everything works.

> On Aug 20, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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