pulseaudio not authenticated

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
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>> 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
>
>
Using ubuntu 14.04.


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