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SanskritFritz

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Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Hi. Pretty fresh Archlinux installation on my dad's computer. He has a working Debian on another partition which outputs sound just fine, so hardware failure is ruled out I guess.

I tried several guides, tried the PulseAudio/Troubleshooting page on the wiki, but the sound is simply muted.
Relevant info:

root@horimi ~# lspci -v
...
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887)
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
        Memory at e3280000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
...

root@horimi ~# lsmod | grep snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_intel          32768  7
snd_hda_codec         106496  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hda_core           65536  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_pcm                90112  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core
snd                    69632  21 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm

root@horimi ~# amixer -c0 scontents
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 50 [78%] [-14.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
  Capabilities: pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback [off]
  Front Right: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
  Capabilities: pvolume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 255
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-51.00dB]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-51.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 21 [68%] [-3.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 21 [68%] [-3.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
  Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 64
  Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [1.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [1.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
  Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
  Playback channels: Mono
  Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 20 [65%] [-4.50dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 20 [65%] [-4.50dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 31 [100%] [33.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 31 [100%] [33.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 31
  Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-13.50dB] [off]
  Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-13.50dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch'
  Item0: '2ch'
Simple mixer control 'Digital',0
  Capabilities: cvolume
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 120
  Front Left: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: Capture 60 [50%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
  Capabilities: cenum
  Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
  Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0
  Capabilities: enum
  Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
  Item0: 'Enabled'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono:
  Front Left: Playback 21 [68%] [-3.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Playback 21 [68%] [-3.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
  Capabilities: volume
  Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: 0 - 3
  Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
  Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]

root@horimi ~# fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  daddy   1464 F.... pulseaudio
                     daddy   2191 F.... alsamixer

root@horimi ~# speaker-test -c2 -t wav

speaker-test 1.1.3

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 2048 to 16384
Period size range from 1024 to 1024
Using max buffer size 16384
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 16384
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right

root@horimi ~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

journalctl --this-boot
...
Jan 14 13:28:38 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:28:38 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"

Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:27 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:39 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:39 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:39 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "auto_null"
Jan 14 13:31:39 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "auto_null.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:39 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "auto_null.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "auto_null"
Jan 14 13:31:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "auto_null.monitor"
Jan 14 13:31:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:31:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"

Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:23 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:23 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:23 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:23 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:24 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:24 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:38:42 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:16 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:16 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:21 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:21 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:39:22 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:14 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:14 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:15 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:15 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:25 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:25 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:25 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:40:25 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:41:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"
Jan 14 13:41:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:41:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo"
Jan 14 13:41:47 horimi plasmashell[1456]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo"

When I run xine with an mp3 file, it happily thinks there is sound (there is visualisation), I can see the process in pavucontrol, so pulseaudio seems to be exposed correctly to applications. I unmuted every possible channel in alsamixer. I even added the user to the audio group.
I'm desperate and I'm stuck now, can you please help me.

Last edited by SanskritFritz (2017-01-21 20:37:53)

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Posts: 21,657

Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Throw in

pacmd list-cards
pacmd list-sinks
pacmd list-sink-inputs

while playing through xine or whatever

Last edited by V1del (2017-01-15 13:45:41)

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Thanks, here it is:

[daddy@horimi ~]$ pacmd list-cards
1 card(s) available.
    index: 0
        name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
        driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
        owner module: 6
        properties:
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xe3280000 irq 27"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.vendor.id = "8086"
                device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
                device.product.id = "27d8"
                device.product.name = "NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887))"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "0"
                device.description = "Built-in Audio"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        profiles:
                input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60, available: unknown)
                output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000, available: unknown)
                output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (priority 6060, available: unknown)
                output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output (priority 5500, available: unknown)
                output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5560,available: unknown)
                off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
        active profile: <output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo>
        sinks:
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo/#42: Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
        sources:
                alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo/#8: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo.monitor/#44: Monitor of Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)
        ports:
                analog-input-front-mic: Front Microphone (priority 8500, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
                analog-input-rear-mic: Rear Microphone (priority 8200, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
                analog-input-linein: Line In (priority 8100, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
                iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
                        properties:


[daddy@horimi ~]$ pacmd list-sinks
1 sink(s) available.
  * index: 42
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo>
        driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
        flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
        state: RUNNING
        suspend cause:
        priority: 9958
        volume: front-left: 94854 / 145% / 9,63 dB,   front-right: 94854 / 145% / 9,63 dB
                balance 0,00
        base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
        volume steps: 65537
        muted: no
        current latency: 209,88 ms
        max request: 39 KiB
        max rewind: 344 KiB
        monitor source: 44
        sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
        channel map: front-left,front-right
                     Stereo
        used by: 1
        linked by: 1
        configured latency: 210,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 1837,50 ms
        card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
        module: 6
        properties:
                alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
                device.api = "alsa"
                device.class = "sound"
                alsa.class = "generic"
                alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
                alsa.name = "ALC662 rev1 Digital"
                alsa.id = "ALC662 rev1 Digital"
                alsa.subdevice = "0"
                alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
                alsa.device = "1"
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xe3280000 irq 27"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.vendor.id = "8086"
                device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
                device.product.id = "27d8"
                device.product.name = "NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887))"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "iec958:0"
                device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
                device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
                device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
                device.profile.name = "iec958-stereo"
                device.profile.description = "Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
                device.description = "Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (IEC958)"
                alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC662 rev1"
                alsa.components = "HDA:10ec0662,1458a002,00100101"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        ports:
                iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
                        properties:

        active port: <iec958-stereo-output>


[daddy@horimi ~]$ pacmd list-sink-inputs
1 sink input(s) available.
    index: 7
        driver: <protocol-native.c>
        flags:
        state: RUNNING
        sink: 42 <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.iec958-stereo>
        volume: front-left: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB,   front-right: 65536 / 100% / 0,00 dB
                balance 0,00
        muted: no
        current latency: 250,00 ms
        requested latency: 210,00 ms
        sample spec: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
        channel map: front-left,front-right
                     Stereo
        resample method: (null)
        module: 8
        client: 16 <xine>
        properties:
                media.role = "video"
                media.name = "Audio Stream"
                application.name = "xine"
                native-protocol.peer = "UNIX socket client"
                native-protocol.version = "31"
                application.process.id = "3369"
                application.process.user = "daddy"
                application.process.host = "horimi"
                application.process.binary = "xine"
                application.language = "hu_HU.UTF-8"
                window.x11.display = ":0"
                application.process.machine_id = "1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830"
                application.process.session_id = "c6"
                application.icon_name = "xine"
                module-stream-restore.id = "sink-input-by-media-role:video"

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

You are playing to the Digital Output, something tells me you want to play to analog instead. Use

pacmd set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo

or pavucontrol's configuration tab, to switch the profile.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Woa, we're getting somewhere, because fiddling with pavucontrol the following happens:

On the Configuration tab I select Analog Stereo Output (unplugged), then on the Output devices tab I select the Headphones (unplugged) there is sound for one second, but pavucontrol immediately switches back to digital output and everything is muted again. I googled around and found several sources to set the default output and sink in /etc/pulse/default.pa but could not figure out which settings to use. Also, I don't understand why the output is marked (unplugged). I have tried every other jack outputs on the soundcard in vain.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Hmm... flaky jack detection we meet again. Now that you mention it I notice that your  sink index is at 42 which shows that it is constantly reported as disconnected and reconnected. Can be workarounded by removing respectively commenting

load-module module-switch-on-port-available

and then forcing the correct profile on pulse start up with

set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
set-sink-port alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo analog-output-headphones

in your /etc/pulse/default.pa (the line to comment/remove is somewhere at the start, the other two should be appended at the end)  restart pulse

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

should be enough

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

THANK YOU! What else is there to say. I happily mark this thread as solved.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Glad to hear, these issues can be a bit weird to solve if you don't know what you are looking for. And they are usually caused by the hardware or the driver reporting wrong/weird information.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

I want to bump this thread, because this doesn't always work. When not, I find this in the logs:

Jan 19 23:19:15 horimi pulseaudio[6449]: No card found by this name or index.
Jan 19 23:19:15 horimi pulseaudio[6449]: Failed to initialize daemon.

When I do this:

~> pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

I found this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=177220 where the OP says: "It happens because I loaded the audio drivers statically in /etc/pulse/default.pa".

However in my case lspci reveals:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887)
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
        Memory at e3280000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link
        Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
        Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

The ID looks OK to me, but maybe I'm missing something?
A computer restart usually solves the problem.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

That's strange, that name should be stable. Can you post your whole default.pa as well as, while it's not working

journalctl -k | grep snd
journalctl -b --user-unit pulseaudio
aplay -l 

are you using any non standard kernel module parameters (in modprobe.d or maybe through some power management tool like TLP or similar?)

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

root@horimi ~# journalctl -k | grep snd
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2: autoconfig for ALC662 rev1: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    speaker_outs=0 (0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    mono: mono_out=0x0
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    dig-out=0x1e/0x0
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:    inputs:
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Front Mic=0x19
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Rear Mic=0x18
Jan 20 18:12:33 horimi kernel: snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC0D2:      Line=0x1a

[daddy@horimi ~]$ journalctl -b --user-unit pulseaudio
-- Logs begin at Thu 2016-12-29 14:12:11 CET, end at Fri 2017-01-20 22:12:27 CET. --
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: Starting Sound Service...
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi pulseaudio[760]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No sink found by this name or index.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi pulseaudio[760]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: Stopped Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:04 horimi systemd[643]: Starting Sound Service...
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi pulseaudio[806]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No sink found by this name or index.
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi pulseaudio[806]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.                                                                             
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.                                                             
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Stopped Sound Service.                                                                                                          
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Starting Sound Service...                                                                                                       
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi pulseaudio[828]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No sink found by this name or index.                                                                 
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi pulseaudio[828]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.                                                                         
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE                                                          
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.                                                                                                  
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.                                                                                  
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.                                                                             
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.                                                             
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Stopped Sound Service.                                                                                                          
jan 20 18:14:05 horimi systemd[643]: Starting Sound Service...                                                                                                       
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi pulseaudio[837]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No sink found by this name or index.                                                                 
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi pulseaudio[837]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.                                                                         
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE                                                          
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.                                                                                                  
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.                                                                                  
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.                                                                             
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.                                                             
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Stopped Sound Service.                                                                                                          
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Starting Sound Service...                                                                                                       
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi pulseaudio[844]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No sink found by this name or index.                                                                 
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi pulseaudio[844]: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.                                                                         
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Stopped Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: Failed to start Sound Service.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Unit entered failed state.
jan 20 18:14:06 horimi systemd[643]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

root@horimi ~# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

UPDATE: default.pa https://gist.github.com/03f3c36ed6fbfab … 54f5d87147

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

are you using any non standard kernel module parameters (in modprobe.d or maybe through some power management tool like TLP or similar?)

No, vanilla arch installation.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

That all looks normal maybe the output of

pulseaudio -vvv

during one of those not working moments might give some more insight.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

What happens if you comment load-module module-detect in your default.pa as follows:

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev support)
#load-module module-detect
.endif

Since this was hinted at in post #9. Troubleshooting your original error, I'm not 100% convinced that your last two lines in the defualt.pa:

set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
set-sink-port alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo analog-output-headphones

Are correct. Unfortunately, I don't have another solution to work with. Basically, because your hdmi and analog output are the same cards, adjusting those 2 lines might be helpful. See the following: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … -the-shell.

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

@JBS The only thing that should be able to change on these names ist the last 0 as that corresponds to the ALSA index, shouldn't be a problem in this case as there is only one card. The non-udev module should never load itself anyway (and there's no HDMI card so that doesn't matter).

It feels like there might be a race with the soundcards becoming available and pulseaudio starting, but that should fix itself  on one of the subsequent restarts pulse attempts to do...  What might also help is simply letting pulse start even if it results in a failure to identify the card, maybe one could investigate why and how the names change. adding a .nofail before the offending lines could help us out here, like so

.nofail
set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0 output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo
set-sink-port alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo analog-output-headphones

should at least let pulse continue startup, and afterwards one could check what the names are with pacmd list-cards

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

That all looks normal maybe the output of

pulseaudio -vvv

during one of those not working moments might give some more insight.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: Permission denied
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 9.0
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option -fdiagnostics-color=auto
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 4.8.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 9 07:24:34 CET 2016
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-runtime.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/daddy/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: System supports high resolution timers
D: [pulseaudio] memblock.c: Using shared posix-shm memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472
I: [pulseaudio] cpu-x86.c: CPU flags: CMOV MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_mmx.c: Initialising MMX optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized volume functions.
I: [pulseaudio] remap_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized remappers.
I: [pulseaudio] sconv_sse.c: Initialising SSE2 optimized conversions.
I: [pulseaudio] svolume_orc.c: Initialising ORC optimized volume functions.
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-device-volumes.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-device-volumes'.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-stream-volumes.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-stream-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-stream-volumes'.
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1 added for object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] database-tdb.c: Opened TDB database '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-card-database.tdb'
I: [pulseaudio] module-card-restore.c: Successfully opened database file '/home/daddy/.config/pulse/1e67023795cb4c888e283ef898bd8830-card-database'.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /dev/snd/controlC0 is accessible: yes
D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes
I: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Found 1 cards.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-udev-detect" (index: #4; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-jackdbus-detect.so': failure
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-bluetooth-policy.so': failure
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-bluetooth-discover.so': failure
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #5; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #6; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-gconf.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-gconf" (index: #7; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-default-device-restore" (index: #8; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #9; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module-always-sink.c: Autoloading null-sink as no other sinks detected.
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Database contains no data for key: sink:auto_null
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Database contains no (or invalid) data for key: sink:auto_null:null
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Created sink 0 "auto_null" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c:     device.description = "Dummy Output"
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c:     device.class = "abstract"
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c:     device.icon_name = "audio-card"
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to change event.
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Database contains no data for key: source:auto_null.monitor
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Database contains no (or invalid) data for key: source:auto_null.monitor:null
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: Created source 0 "auto_null.monitor" with sample spec s16le 2ch 44100Hz and channel map front-left,front-right
I: [pulseaudio] source.c:     device.description = "Monitor of Dummy Output"
I: [pulseaudio] source.c:     device.class = "monitor"
I: [pulseaudio] source.c:     device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"
D: [null-sink] module-null-sink.c: Thread starting up
D: [pulseaudio] module-device-restore.c: Database contains no (or invalid) data for key: sink:auto_null:null
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-null-sink" (index: #11; argument: "sink_name=auto_null sink_properties='device.description="Dummy Output"'").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-always-sink" (index: #10; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-intended-roles" (index: #12; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module-suspend-on-idle.c: Sink auto_null becomes idle, timeout in 5 seconds.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #13; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-console-kit.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-console-kit" (index: #14; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-systemd-login.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] client.c: Created 0 "Login Session c2"
D: [pulseaudio] module-systemd-login.c: Added new session c2
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-systemd-login" (index: #15; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-position-event-sounds" (index: #16; argument: "").
D: [pulseaudio] stream-interaction.c: Using role 'phone' as trigger role.
D: [pulseaudio] stream-interaction.c: Using roles 'music' and 'video' as cork roles.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-role-cork" (index: #17; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-filter-heuristics" (index: #18; argument: "").
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Loaded "module-filter-apply" (index: #19; argument: "").
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: No card found by this name or index.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-filter-apply" (index: #19).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-filter-apply" (index: #19).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-filter-heuristics" (index: #18).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-filter-heuristics" (index: #18).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-role-cork" (index: #17).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-role-cork" (index: #17).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-position-event-sounds" (index: #16).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-position-event-sounds" (index: #16).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-systemd-login" (index: #15).
D: [pulseaudio] module-systemd-login.c: Removing session c2
I: [pulseaudio] client.c: Freed 0 "Login Session c2"
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-systemd-login" (index: #15).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-console-kit" (index: #14).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-console-kit" (index: #14).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #13).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-suspend-on-idle" (index: #13).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-intended-roles" (index: #12).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-intended-roles" (index: #12).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-null-sink" (index: #11).
D: [pulseaudio] module-always-sink.c: Autoloaded null-sink removed
D: [pulseaudio] module-rescue-streams.c: No sink inputs to move away.
D: [pulseaudio] module-rescue-streams.c: No source outputs to move away.
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
D: [null-sink] module-null-sink.c: Thread shutting down
I: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Freeing sink 0 "auto_null"
I: [pulseaudio] source.c: Freeing source 0 "auto_null.monitor"
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-null-sink" (index: #11).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-always-sink" (index: #10).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-always-sink" (index: #10).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-rescue-streams" (index: #9).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-rescue-streams" (index: #9).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-default-device-restore" (index: #8).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-default-device-restore" (index: #8).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-gconf" (index: #7).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-gconf" (index: #7).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #6).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-native-protocol-unix" (index: #6).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #5).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-esound-protocol-unix" (index: #5).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-udev-detect" (index: #4).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-udev-detect" (index: #4).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-augment-properties" (index: #3).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-augment-properties" (index: #3).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-card-restore" (index: #2).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-card-restore" (index: #2).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-stream-restore" (index: #1).
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1 removed from object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-stream-restore" (index: #1).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloading "module-device-restore" (index: #0).
I: [pulseaudio] module.c: Unloaded "module-device-restore" (index: #0).
D: [pulseaudio] core-subscribe.c: Dropped redundant event due to remove event.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon terminated.

I don't know if it's relevant, but I issued this command through a remote ssh session after su - from root to my dad' account.

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SanskritFritz

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

After putting .nofail into default.pa, the only difference pulseaudio -vvv gives is this:

D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry removed from object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry0
D: [pulseaudio] protocol-dbus.c: Interface org.PulseAudio.Ext.StreamRestore1.RestoreEntry removed from object /org/pulseaudio/stream_restore1/entry1

It is maybe worth to mention, that in the last two days there was no sound at all, my dad rebooted the machine at least ten times.

UPDATE:

daddy@horimi ~> pacmd list-cards
1 card(s) available.
    index: 0
        name: <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0>
        driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
        owner module: 5
        properties:
                alsa.card = "0"
                alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel"
                alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel at 0xe3280000 irq 27"
                alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
                device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1b.0"
                sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0"
                device.bus = "pci"
                device.vendor.id = "8086"
                device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
                device.product.id = "27d8"
                device.product.name = "NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (GA-D525TUD (Realtek ALC887))"
                device.form_factor = "internal"
                device.string = "0"
                device.description = "Built-in Audio"
                module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
                device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
        profiles:
                input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Input (priority 60, available: unknown)
                output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000, available: unknown)
                output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Duplex (priority 6060, available: unknown)
                output:iec958-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output (priority 5500, available: unknown)
                output:iec958-stereo+input:analog-stereo: Digital Stereo (IEC958) Output + Analog Stereo Input (priority 5560, available: unknown)
                off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
        active profile: <output:analog-stereo+input:analog-stereo>
        sinks:
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo/#0: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
        sources:
                alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor/#0: Monitor of Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
                alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo/#1: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
        ports:
                analog-input-front-mic: Front Microphone (priority 8500, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
                        properties:
                                device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"                                                                                          
                analog-input-rear-mic: Rear Microphone (priority 8200, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)                                                         
                        properties:                                                                                                                                  
                                device.icon_name = "audio-input-microphone"                                                                                          
                analog-input-linein: Line In (priority 8100, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)                                                                   
                        properties:                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                     
                analog-output-lineout: Line Out (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)                                                                
                        properties:                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                     
                analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)                                                           
                        properties:                                                                                                                                  
                                device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"                                                                                                
                iec958-stereo-output: Digital Output (S/PDIF) (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)                                                
properties:

Last edited by SanskritFritz (2017-01-21 20:36:57)

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V1del

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes

Points to something being active and blocking access for pulse, what does

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

give (again during a not working moment)? Have you installed a MIDI daemon like timidity or fluidsynth and enabled their systemd services?

SanskritFritz

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0 is busy: yes

Points to something being active and blocking access for pulse, what does

sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*

give (again during a not working moment)? Have you installed a MIDI daemon like timidity or fluidsynth and enabled their systemd services?

Man, thanks for being so patient with me.

root@horimi ~# fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  daddy    747 F.... pulseaudio

We haven't installed anything like that.

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SanskritFritz

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

OK I just found a permanent solution, or at least I hope so:

pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-gconf plasma-pa libcanberra-pulse pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa

I just had to fiddle a bit in KDE system settings and now the sound works flawlessly, the features of pulseaudio we haven't used anyway.
I just have to be careful in the future not to install pulseaudio again, now it looks like Alsa does the job nicely.
It would be nice to find out what the problem was, but I rather let my dad use his computer and be satisfied with Archlinux
Guys, thanks for your help, I really appreciate it!

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justinlovewitharch

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

if you have installed those then you must have alsamixer, run alsamixer and make sure "Master" and "PCM" not muted. If they are muted, you can press m on your keyboard to unmute it.

SanskritFritz

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Re: Audio is muted, sorry can't come up with a better title

Thanks Justin, you really seem to love Archlinux and that was a cute post

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