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senior_spielbergo

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Registered: 2011-02-21

Posts: 29

[solved] pulseaudio-module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card"

Hello,

I just realized, that I've got an error message during start up on my Thinkpad T400. When I started it up this morning I found "Loading modules -> [fail]".
So I had a look in /var/log/errors.log where I found this:

Jun 12 20:48:35 localhost pulseaudio[1696]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Jun 12 20:48:35 localhost pulseaudio[1696]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Jun 12 20:48:48 localhost pulseaudio[1853]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Jun 12 20:48:48 localhost pulseaudio[1853]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Jun 12 20:48:52 localhost pulseaudio[1927]: pid.c: Daemon already running.

It seems like the system tries to start the daemon two times on startup and so I tried "pulseaudio --kill" and afterwards "pulseaudio --start" and there where no messages. Which proves my assumption I think.

The next thing I tried was the hint in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … tup_failed, but it didn't do anything, so I googled a lot today, but I couldn't find any useful hints what problem it could be.

Any help on this topic will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

David

I'm also posting my rc.conf. Maybe it is helpful:

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# DAEMON_LOCALE: If set to 'yes', use $LOCALE as the locale during daemon
# startup and during the boot process. If set to 'no', the C locale is used.
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
#   Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged.
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
# VERBOSE: Verbose level (from 1 to 8). man 3 syslog for level info
#
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
DAEMON_LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
VERBOSE="3"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Blacklisting is no longer supported.
#   Replace every !module by an entry as on the following line in a file in
#   /etc/modprobe.d:
#     blacklist module
#   See "man modprobe.conf" for details.
#
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq fuse cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave thinkpad_acpi tp_smapi hdaps vboxdrv)

# Udev settle timeout (default to 30)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30

# Scan for FakeRAID (dmraid) Volumes at startup
USEDMRAID="no"

# Scan for BTRFS volumes at startup
USEBTRFS="no"

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="david-ThinkPad-T400"

# Use 'ip addr' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Wired network setup
#   - interface: name of device (required)
#   - address: IP address (leave blank for DHCP)
#   - netmask: subnet mask (ignored for DHCP)
#   - gateway: default route (ignored for DHCP)
# 
# Static IP example
# interface=eth0
# address=192.168.0.2
# netmask=255.255.255.0
# gateway=192.168.0.1
#
# DHCP example
# interface=eth0
# address=
# netmask=
# gateway=

interface=(!eth0 !wlan0)
address=
netmask=
gateway=

# Setting this to "yes" will skip network shutdown.
# This is required if your root device is on NFS.
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

# Enable these netcfg profiles at boot-up. These are useful if you happen to
# need more advanced network features than the simple network service
# supports, such as multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
# If something other takes care of your hardware clock (ntpd, dual-boot...)
# you should disable 'hwclock' here.
#
DAEMONS=(@hwclock @syslog-ng @acpid dbus networkmanager netfs @crond gdm @cups laptop-mode @sshd @cpufreq hdapsd !bluetooth @hddtemp @sensors)

Last edited by senior_spielbergo (2011-07-31 19:48:22)

senior_spielbergo

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Registered: 2011-02-21

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] pulseaudio-module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card"

[UPDATE] Today I tried to reinstall pulseaudio, but it did't do anything

Any comments how to solve this issue are still welcome. Thanks in advance.

David

senior_spielbergo

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Registered: 2011-02-21

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] pulseaudio-module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card"

[PUSH] Anybody an idea? I still didn't solve this problem

Any help is welcome!

senior_spielbergo

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Registered: 2011-02-21

Posts: 29

Re: [solved] pulseaudio-module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card"

[Solved] I don't know what happend, but the error message disappeared.

Last edited by senior_spielbergo (2011-07-31 19:49:30)