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nfortier

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 49

[SOLVED] Upgrade disables pulseaudio?

After upgrade which included pulseaudio (11.1-1 -> 12.0-1), I had no sound. I had to reenable puseaudio to fix the problem:

$ systemctl --user enable pulseaudio.service

Is that normal behaviour?

Last edited by nfortier (2018-06-25 15:26:51)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade disables pulseaudio?

It didn't here, check your journal to find out what actually happened.

nfortier

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 49

Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade disables pulseaudio?

Journal showed "bind(): Address already in use" for pulseaudio, that was due to the fact I was starting pulseaudio manually in ~/.config/openbox/autostart (my mistake). However that was the case for a long time and did not prevent pulseaudio from working. Once I removed the offending line in autostart, pulseaudio is started normally at session start, without errors in log, and works correctly.

I don't know why it stopped working after the upgrade. This post:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=763524

raises the possibility it could be related to the simultaneous upgrade of systemd.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Upgrade disables pulseaudio?

Could simply be a race condition that one might be invoked earlier than the other, but yeah you shouldn't manually start pulse in other startup files. The simultaneous upgrade of systemd is quite unlikely, 238 has been the defacto version for a few months now, the recent patches were to fix a shutdown message and won't have had other effects.

FWIW if this is [SOLVED] don't forget to mark your topic as such by editing your title in the first post.

Last edited by V1del (2018-06-24 20:23:53)