pulse audio update broke sound output

[Bret Busby]

On 8/4/24 19:10, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 8/4/24 18:13, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Am Samstag, dem 06.04.2024 um 19:29 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I am running Linux Mint 21.3 , which runs on the base system of
>>> Ubuntu
>>> 22.04.x, which had a recent pulse-audio update, and I have
>>> consequently
>>> lost a channel of sound through the headphones.
>>
>> you should really ask your mint questions in a mint forum, nobody here
>> knows what mint does to the audio stack underneath their own desktop
>> they implement.
>>
>> they tend to apply their own configs and (not sure that is still true
>> but it was for the last releases of their hybrid distro) replace
>> certain ubuntu packages with their own from their own archive.
>>
>> nobody here will be able to tell what they changed so pretty please ask
>> the people that actually know which are the mint developers...
>>
>> also note that ubuntu uses pipewire and not pulseaudio since 22.04
>> onwards ...
>>
>> ciao
>>     oli
>>
>>
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I had understood that the only things that Linux Mint used from their 
> own repository, were the Firefox package and Linux Mint GUI stuff, and, 
> possibly, "flatpack" stuff.
> 
> The reason that I posted the query to this list, is that the text 
> displayed at the URL for the change that I cited, corresponds to the 
> changelog displayed from synaptic, from the particular installation, 
> showing that the package change applies to the Ubuntu package, from the 
> repository for Ubuntu 22.04, and, the changelog for the package, shows 
> it to explicitly be a Ubuntu matter, with the person who made the 
> package update, being at canonical.com.
> 

And, whilst the person who made the change, is at canonical.com, the 
person who signed (authorised?) the change, is at ubuntu.com

> As this mailing list does not allow screenshots to be posted, due in 
> part, to the 40kB message size limit, I can send to you, off-list, the 
> applicable screenshots, if you want, to show that the particular 
> pulse-audio change is from the Ubuntu 22.04 repository, rather than from 
> the Linux Mint repository.
> 
> However, and, I had not posted this to the list, due to the lack of 
> response to my query, before the above message, but, during the course 
> of last night, I watched a couple of online youtube videos, and, a 
> downloaded video, using Celluloid, to find whether the problem still 
> existed, and, the problem with the loss of the sound channel, appears to 
> have disappeared, indicating to me, that the problem appeared to be "a 
> temporary glitch" with the software update, and, the system appears to 
> have self-healed.
> 
> I would not have posted the query to the list, if I had not conclusively 
> believed that the problem came from an update from within the Ubuntu 
> 22.04 repository, making it a Ubuntu problem, which is, in part, also 
> why I asked, in my initial post about the problem, whether anyone else 
> had also experienced the problem, consequential to the update. If anyone 
> else had responded, with a statement indicating whether they had 
> experienced the same problem, with either/both of Linux Mint 21.3 or 
> Ubuntu 22.04, that could have been helpful; especially, if experienced 
> with one but not the other, of the two operating systems.
> 
> I am aware that this list is for Ubuntu problems, and, not for problems 
> specific to Linux Mint, but, given that Linux Mint uses Ubuntu Linux as 
> its underlying operating system (except for LMDE), I believe that a 
> problem that arises from the Ubuntu underlying system, is approproate to 
> be queried on this list.
> 
> Of course, if Linux Mint provided and supported an official support 
> mailing list, or, that a sufficiently populated and active, Linux Mint 
> users mailing list would be used by Linux Mint users (especially, 
> including Linux Mint users more knowledgeable than me), then, that would 
> be an appropriate first point of contact for such problems, but, in the 
> absence of either of those, and, emphatically, given that the issue came 
> from a Ubuntu repository, then, the next best option, is this list, to 
> deal with Ubuntu-originating problems. Well, to me, that seems logical, 
> anyway.
> 
> ....
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> Western Australia
> (UTC+0800)
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> 
> 

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