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pkztk

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Registered: 2013-05-09

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[SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I updated arch's pulseaudio package. Now the system doesnt boot properly. Im getting the info saying "Something went wrong. The system couldnt restore. All extensions have been disabled." Then it wants me to logout. After loging back in with no extensions I cant control sound. No sound icon in the top right corner (gnome 3.10) and control buttons in my laptop do not work either. Does anyone of you ran into the same problem?

thanks in advance for your help.

Last edited by pkztk (2013-10-30 17:12:19)

m79reed

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Registered: 2012-02-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

Have the same issue. Try to run pulseaudio from console. Sound icon will be activated, but on my computer there is no sound anyway. Pulseaudio writes:

E: [alsa-sink-ALC888 Digital] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
E: [alsa-sink-ALC888 Digital] alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
E: [alsa-sink-ALC888 Digital] alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

I noticed that analog sound device in Gnome sound configuration disappeared. I have only one s/pdif (digital output) device on the list.

Do you have similar issues?

Edited:
Ok, it's problem with not properly plugged audio jack. It's looks like if a audio jack is not plugged in (front socket, the green one) - the device disappears from output device list and sound is not working. I have headphones plugged in front socket and speakers connected to rear audio socket (black one).

Last edited by m79reed (2013-10-30 11:55:47)

pkztk

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Registered: 2013-05-09

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

Yes, the icon reappears when I start pulseaudio from console but it doesnt turn up or down the sound. When using sound control buttons only "Dummy sound" foreground with a sound symbol pops out and nothing happens with the sound intensity.
When I plug in headphones, the sound disappears completely.

vae77

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Registered: 2010-07-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

Similar issues here.
I can start pulseaudio from cli without errors messages, but I get only virtual output.

I tried some tips from wiki, but nothing worked, so I downgraded to pulseaudio 4.0-2.

჻ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)

჻ aplay -l  (It shows nothing with the last pulseaudio version)
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC275 Analog [ALC275 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Last edited by vae77 (2013-10-30 14:43:16)

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pkztk

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Registered: 2013-05-09

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

The problem is fixed with the latest pulseaudio upgrade. Marking as SOLVED.

daymoon

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Registered: 2013-09-16

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

I struggled with this Pulseaudio-after-recent-update issue too.

Situation:
* my integrated sound card has 6 unique 3,5mm stereo jack receptacles
* I am using 5.1 channel amplifier connected by 3 unique 3.5mm stereo jack plugs (front channels, rear channels and center/woofer one), yet about one week ago all 6 channels played correctly
* after Pulseaudio upgrade to 4.0-6 my system became quiet

Solution:
* I had to edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf to:

default-sample-channels = 6
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe

* I had to replug at least one amplifier plug in different receptacle, for succesful finding I recommend:

speaker-test -c 6

I hope this will be helpful.

bl4ster

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Registered: 2013-11-04

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues after upgrade

This problem is not fixed. I have no audio even with pulseaudio 4.0-6.
I see only S/PDIF digital output in gnome sound settings, both analog output and nvidia HDMI are gone.
I had to downgrade to pulseaudio 4.0-2 to make it work.

Last edited by bl4ster (2013-11-04 16:33:11)