On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:35:42PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > This morning, I went to my wife's login and ran: > > pulseaudio --kill > > rm ~/.config/pulse > > pulseaudio --start > > And that worked. > > When I tried to do the same thing under my daughter's login, however, I get > the warnings about the cookie file and ~/.config/pulse is NOT recreated, so > still no sound anywhere. I have checked the permissions of my daughter's > ~/.config/pulse directory and it is 644 with her user as owner and group. > That matches ~/.config in my home directory and my wife's. > > > So why does pulseaudio not create the files it needs, like it did for me and > my wife? Is there something else that I am missing? Any help will be > appreciated. > > Marc
Moin Marc, my /etc/passwd: - - - - - - - - pulse:x:113:121:PulseAudio daemon,,,:/var/run/pulse:/bin/false my /etc/group: - - - - - - - - audio:x:29:pulse,my_userid pulse:x:121:my_userid pulse-access:x:122:my_userid my pulseaudio refresh (if no sound): - - - - - - - - - - - pulseaudio --kill && alsamixer -c0 make sure 'pulseaudio' is loaded only once (check with 'ps ax | grep pulseaudio') Wilko