pulseaudio not authenticated

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6 February 2016 at 07:59, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > This is very strange.
>> >
>> > I have been using my HPG210 to watch videos thru a LG monitor via HDMI.
>> > Last night I could not get any sound.  I went to Synaptic to reinstall
>> pulse
>> > and there it says that pulse audio is not authenticated!  I reinstalled
>> and
>> > now have no sound at all!
>> >
>> > 1:4.0 is the version number it gives in synaptic.
>>
>> Which version of Ubuntu and copy/paste the output from
>> apt-cache policy pulseaudio
>> please.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>> --
>
>
> After I wrote that email I looked at pulseaudio in Software center.  Where
> in Synaptic is was uninstalled in SC it was installed.  I tried removing
> and reinstalling.  I could not reinstall.
>
> Then I sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
>
> then
>
> sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
>
> Now the sound is back. I had not sound indicator so
>
> sudo apt-get install indicator-sound
>
> and
>
> killall unity-panel-service
>
> The applet returned however when I click on it I only get system settings.
>
> So problem is partially resolved.
>
> thanks
>
>
> garyk
>
>   Installed: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1
>   Candidate: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1
>   Version table:
>  *** 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1 0
>         500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main
> amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      1:4.0-0ubuntu11 0
>         500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64
> Packages
>
>
I am not just having this issue with respect to the volume applet
function.  Other system function icons are missing from system settings.
For example brightness control and appearance are also missing.


garyk
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