Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

[Tom Overlund]

Also discovered this new "feature" after upgrading. No sound, speakers
directly plugged into the audio out jack. The only indication that anything
was wrong (besides the lack of sound) was the following in /var/log/syslog:
"[pulseaudio] module.c: module-detect is deprecated: Please use
module-udev-detect instead of module-detect!"

If pulseaudio can work without udev, then why does it still depend on
libudev1? How would you even go about setting up a system without udev? As
far as I know, you get it as part of the base install without selecting any
other packages. It's been a default for ages.

At the very least, a warning should be part of the install for breaking
basic functionality for what seems like gratuitous reasons. I don't know
what's the point of having a pulseaudio package that doesn't work without
"Recommends" out of the box on a base install.

Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

[Felipe Sateler]

On 30 July 2016 at 17:01, Nicolas Le Cam  wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:30:39 -0300 Felipe Sateler  wrote:
>> On 17 July 2016 at 12:28, Eric Cooper  wrote:
>>  Shouldn't that be a Depends rather than Recommends?
>>
>> No, because pulseaudio can work in environments without udev. By using
>> Depends, this becomes impossible.
>>
>
> Could it be possible to depends on it in the case of an upgrade ? Or
> at least display a warning if using udev and --no-install-recommends ?
> Just faced the same problem, and it wasn't obvious that the sound
> breakage was because I needed a new package all of a sudden.

If you are using --no-install-recommends, you should always be on the
watch for new recommended packages.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

[Nicolas Le Cam]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:30:39 -0300 Felipe Sateler  wrote:
> On 17 July 2016 at 12:28, Eric Cooper  wrote:
>  Shouldn't that be a Depends rather than Recommends?
>
> No, because pulseaudio can work in environments without udev. By using
> Depends, this becomes impossible.
>

Could it be possible to depends on it in the case of an upgrade ? Or
at least display a warning if using udev and --no-install-recommends ?
Just faced the same problem, and it wasn't obvious that the sound
breakage was because I needed a new package all of a sudden.

regards,
Nicolas

Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

[Felipe Sateler]

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On 16 July 2016 at 17:34, Eric Cooper  wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 9.0-1.1
> Severity: important
>
> I use USB-attached speakers (Audioengine 2+) on my desktop machine.
> They worked fine until I upgraded pulseaudio to version 9.  I
> reinstalled the version 8 pulseaudio packages and they work again.
>
> Before realizing it was the pulseaudio package, I tried older (4.5) and
> newer (4.7) Linux kernels, but the behavior was the same.

Did you install the pulseaudio-module-udev package?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

[Eric Cooper]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 9.0-1.1
Severity: important

I use USB-attached speakers (Audioengine 2+) on my desktop machine.
They worked fine until I upgraded pulseaudio to version 9.  I
reinstalled the version 8 pulseaudio packages and they work again.

Before realizing it was the pulseaudio package, I tried older (4.5) and
newer (4.7) Linux kernels, but the behavior was the same.
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see .

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or # for
## commenting.

; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 
MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see .

## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or # for
## commenting.

; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 
MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no

; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11

; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0

; resample-method = speex-float-1
; enable-remixing = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = yes
; lfe-crossover-freq = 120

; flat-volumes = yes

; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 20

; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right

; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0
#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF
#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see .

# This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user
# (i.e. not in system mode)

.nofail

### Load something into the sample cache
#load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga
#load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug 
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga
#load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug 
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/device-added.oga
#load-sample-lazy