Sound muted or turned low

[Jude DaShiell]

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# file: fixpulse.sh - script to back out of broken pulse configuration
cd $HOME
cd .config
rm -fr pulse
echo "bad pulse is wiped out, so reboot."


That's script that ought to clear any future pulse problems so long as
pulse keeps its user configurations in the same place in coming years.

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, Daniel Crone wrote:

> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:21:48
> 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
>
> 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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