lost pulse

[Nils Kassube]

Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
> <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> 
wrote:
> >> Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >> > I was trying to get my bluetooth earphone to load automatically
> >> > and I
> >> > have lost pulse audio altogether.  I added  pactl load-module
> >> > module-bluetooth-discover to   ~/.config/pulse/default.pa but
> >> > when
> >> > pulse failed I removed it.

Did you remove the entry in the file or did you remove the file? If you 
didn't remove the file, that would be another option - or even better, 
move it to another place so you can put it back later. BTW: I don't have 
a file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa on any of my machines, so I think 
sound should work without it. But maybe there is another file in 
~/.config/pulse/ which creates the problem. On my machines there is only 
a file cookie from last April in that directory.

> >> > I have since removed pulse audio and reinstalled it to no avail.
> >> > 
> >> > When I run PAVU control it says connection to Pulse failed,
> >> > likely
> >> > because the pulse server in Environment/X11 Root WIndow
> >> > properties or
> >> > default server in client.conf is misconfigured.
> >> 
> >> From that error message I would assume that pulse should be started
> >> before X11. Therefore I would suggest to restart lightdm or reboot.
> > 
> > Reboot had no effect. The screen when completely blank when I did-  
> >    sudo service lightdm restart
> > 
> > I let it sit for about 1 minute.
> 
> But when I did sudo restart lightdm it restarted fine but no change to
> sound.

Well, then it looks like I guessed wrong ...


Nils