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samuelrey

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 10

[Solved] No Sound with Tomahawk

I have *successfully installed tomahawk.
I know that tomahawk requires phonon, and support suggested I used the vlc backend.
So I made sure I had the right packages.

$ pacman -Q | grep phonon
phonon-qt4 4.8.3-2
phonon-qt4-vlc 0.8.2-2

I was concerned about the phonon-qt4, but I checked the packages that require it.

$ pacman -Qi phonon-qt4 | grep -i required
Required by    : tomahawk
$ pacman -Qi phonon-qt4-vlc | grep -i required
Required by    : phonon-qt4

Still no sound up to this point. Reading this article, I thought perhaps it was a matter of PulseAudio. I installed pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa. But still no sound.
I checked the verbose output of tomahawk.

$ tomahawk --verbose >> tomahawk.log
Translation: Tomahawk: Using system locale: "en_US"
Translation: Qt: Using default locale, system locale one not found: "en_US"
TomahawkApp thread: QThread(0x259bbb0)
[000000000284a238] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[000000000284a238] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[000000000284a238] core audio output error: no suitable audio output module

I checked my /etc/asound.conf, but do not understand what it does.

# Use PulseAudio by default
pcm.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
  hint {
    show on
    description "Default ALSA Output (currently PulseAudio Sound Server)"
  }
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
  fallback "sysdefault"
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

What is going on?

Last edited by samuelrey (2015-10-06 23:24:22)

bavodog

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 28

Re: [Solved] No Sound with Tomahawk

Translation: Qt: Using default locale, system locale one not found: "en_US"

I do not know if this is your problem, but it has been my experience that if your system locale is not set, the "default" is not good enough and itends up causing all sorts of unwanted buggy behaviors. 

I would be sure your locale is set properly.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

samuelrey

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved] No Sound with Tomahawk

I do not know if this is your problem, but it has been my experience that if your system locale is not set, the "default" is not good enough and itends up causing all sorts of unwanted buggy behaviors.

Interesting. I remember setting my locale at install.

$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Even more interesting, I just booted and the audio is working. I hadn't done anything since I shutdown, as far as I remember anyways.

bavodog

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Registered: 2015-10-06

Posts: 28

Re: [Solved] No Sound with Tomahawk

Even more interesting, I just booted and the audio is working. I hadn't done anything since I shutdown, as far as I remember anyways.

it sounds to me like you just won the "pc snafu" lottery.  Maybe you should go to the corner store and buy a lotto ticket now...