<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com" target="_blank">garyartista@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garyartista@gmail.com" target="_blank">garyartista@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Nils Kassube <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net" target="_blank">kassube@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:<br>
> I was trying to get my bluetooth earphone to load automatically and I<br>
> have lost pulse audio altogether. I added pactl load-module<br>
> module-bluetooth-discover to ~/.config/pulse/<a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a> but when<br>
> pulse failed I removed it.<br>
><br>
> I have since removed pulse audio and reinstalled it to no avail.<br>
><br>
> When I run PAVU control it says connection to Pulse failed, likely<br>
> because the pulse server in Environment/X11 Root WIndow properties or<br>
> default server in client.conf is misconfigured.<br>
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</span>From that error message I would assume that pulse should be started<br>
before X11. Therefore I would suggest to restart lightdm or reboot.<br>
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Nils<br>
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-</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Reboot had no effect. The screen when completely blank when I did- <span style="font-family:'Ubuntu Mono','Ubuntu Beta Mono A',Consolas,'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',Courier,monospace;white-space:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">sudo service lightdm restart </span> </div><div><br></div><div>I let it sit for about 1 minute.<br></div><div><br></div><div>garyk</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>But when I did sudo restart lightdm it restarted fine but no change to sound.</div><div><br></div><div>garyk </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Apparently you have to remove the pulse config files. From here I got instructions: <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/475450/audio-suddenly-stopped-pulseaudio-reinstall-has-not-helped-14-04" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/475450/audio-suddenly-stopped-pulseaudio-reinstall-has-not-helped-14-04</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br class="">$ cd ~/.config</div><div>$:~/.config$ mv pulse/ pulse.bak/</div><div>$~/.config$ pulseaudio --start</div><div>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/gary14/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory</div><div>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/gary14/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory</div><div>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/gary14/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory</div><div>W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/gary14/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory</div><div>(these error messages do not seem to matter)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now I have sound back. Missing the sound applet. Working on that now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>garyk</div><div><br></div><div>garyk </div></div>
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