Pulseaudio not responding / reboot doesn't work properly

Teeeeze · 2021-10-23 04:06:50

As the title says, two things came out simultaneously. And I am not sure if they are related at all but it might help.
This post is pretty long. I am sorry for that. You could skip to the actual question part!

I'm also not sure if this is caused by system update, which I did with sudo pacman -Syyu
I have done downgrading packages (reverting) to the last state. But it did nothing to the problem.

Yesterday, I tried to connect to the bluetooth earbuds as always. But it didn't work, instead, it repeatedly connected and disconnected as if it has gone insane. (I'm sure it has nothing to do with my earbuds because it works flawlessly on any other device)
It might have done something bad to pulseaudio. It stopped working.
Whenever I do `pacmd list-sinks`, it only says 'Daemon not responding'

$ pacmd list-sinks
Daemon not responding

I thought that was just another error that could be solved with

pulseaudio -k

It didn't output errors but also did nothing.
If I run pulseaudio immediately after pulseaudio -k, it says

$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

This issue still lingers after several times of reboot

I did some research on the internet
pa_pid_file_create() failed seems like a common problem.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1155038 … ate-failed
I followed the article above and run
`rm ~.config/pulse/*` -> reboot
I still get lingering issue.
https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/issues/810
Another one says removing pulse things in .xprofile will help
But there were none in mine.
By the way, this is the ps output

$ ps x | grep pulseaudio
   5459 ?        D<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
   5939 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep pulseaudio

==========================================================================
Also, rebooting no longer works properly. I can reboot. But it doesn't come back to arch install. It goes to Ubuntu install I have on another hard drive. I can still select arch from Ubuntu's grub. But it also doesn't work. It just says *'you need to load kernel first'*, and it doesn't really boot into Arch.

Another thing to note is I can still boot into Arch from computer's boot menu. In fact, I'm writing this on the broken system.

I have 2 questions .
1. Could these problem somehow related? Pulseaudio breakage also mess reboot up?
2. Is it even possible that a few attempts of connecting to bluetooth earbuds completely destroys pulseaudio. And it doesn't fix itself after reboot.

Thank you very much for reading til the end.

jasonwryan · 2021-10-23 04:18:26

1. More likely the upgrade broke stuff, including pa
2. No. See above.

From the broken system, paste the journal for that boot. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … ing_output and your pacman.log.

Last edited by jasonwryan (2021-10-23 04:18:48)

Teeeeze · 2021-10-23 06:05:16

Thank you. I'm not sure if it's okay to paste thousands of lines of journalctl code here...
Also, as weird as it might sound, pulseaudio fixed itself over time. I don't know what's going on. But I still have the rebooting issue.
I think I should create a separate post for that matter.
Thank you very much for clearing stuff up.

jasonwryan · 2021-10-23 08:04:34

You can use a paste service for the journal (and for the pacman.log): https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

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