lost pulse

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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Thanks for giving it a go!

For some reason the config files would not reset when I rebooted.

garyk
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