On Wednesday 22 December 2021 11:21:47 am Dan Ritter wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Monday 20 December 2021 10:09:56 am Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > > Suggestions as to where I might look for the problem? > > > > > > > > In general, that message means that even if there is a copy of > > > > the pulseaudio daemon running, it is not running with the right > > > > userid and the X11 session you are running in doesn't know about > > > > it. > > > > > > > > Run "pulseaudio --start" and try again. > > > > > > That did get the volume control as invoked from the Xfce applications > > > menu working, all right. Looking in the process table that I see under > > > KDE System Monitor (what I usually use to keep track of system loading) I > > > now see pulseaudio in there twice. One shows the command you mention > > > here, and the other one doesn't, and says "daemonize=no". I'm guessing > > > that's the problem, where to fix it is another question. Mousing over > > > it I also see "parent=systemd" for both of them... > > > > > > Looking at "man systemd", nothing jumps out at me with regard to where I > > > want to go from here.
? > > With this having been done, after restarting the virtualbox instance, > > sound is now working there also. What I might need to fiddle with in terms > > of systemd is not at all clear to me, though. I don't know why this would > > have changed with the upgrade. Yes, it's things changing when I upgrade that bother me about all of this... > > Any further thoughts on this? > > Since it just happened... I'll say that pulseaudio is easily on > the same level of reliability as Windows 95. I decided to test > out the advertised capability of a music player as a USB DAC. As > soon as I got things plugged in, the pulseaudio daemon crashed. > After I restarted it, the pulseeffects equalizer service froze. > After I restarted that, pulseeffects decided that it would be a > good idea to use the USB microphone as both default input and > output... I don't know enough about what you're dealing with there to comment on this. > It's currently working. But I'd so much rather have systems that > didn't think that they should switch configurations > automatically, since PA is so terrible at reading my mind. > > Anyway, upgrade to bullseye. I'll get there. But before I continue with upgrades, I intend to fix what's broken, and maybe trim some of the fat out of the system as it stands, so I don't end up having to download and upgrade stuff I don't use or don't want. In my initial install, I selected multiple desktop environments, so I could try them out. While I was fine with real early versions of KDE, I don't like where they've gone with it so I don't use it as a desktop, though I do use a few of the utilities. I seem to be seeing bits of stuff running, though, that shouldn't be. And also from some of the other choices. I need to clean that up a bit, I think, in addition to the above... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin