Bug#906622: pulseaudio: Only provides dummy output

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 20:45 Erik de Castro Lopo  wrote:

> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
> > After a recent upgrade and then a couple of days later a reboot
> Pulseaudio
> > stopped working with the sound hardware, and only provided a single
> "Dummy output".
> > That was using pulseaudio 11.? and since 12.0 was available I upgraded
> to that, but
> > still get nothing but the "Dummy output" device.
>
> Just after I reported this I tried one more thing, I killed the
> "mate-volume-control-applet". My sound started working again immediately.
> I didn't have to reboot or logout or anything. I already had a test
> audio program running and as soon as "mate-volume-control-applet" was
> kill, the audio started coming out.
>
> Not sure if this bug should be re-assigned to mate-media or not.
>

Yes. Since pulseaudio is below mate on the stack, the mate volume app
should take care not to disrupt pulseaudio.

Could you reassign please? So that you can provide proper version
information.

Saludos

Bug#906622: pulseaudio: Only provides dummy output

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> After a recent upgrade and then a couple of days later a reboot Pulseaudio
> stopped working with the sound hardware, and only provided a single "Dummy 
> output".
> That was using pulseaudio 11.? and since 12.0 was available I upgraded to 
> that, but
> still get nothing but the "Dummy output" device.

Just after I reported this I tried one more thing, I killed the
"mate-volume-control-applet". My sound started working again immediately.
I didn't have to reboot or logout or anything. I already had a test 
audio program running and as soon as "mate-volume-control-applet" was
kill, the audio started coming out.

Not sure if this bug should be re-assigned to mate-media or not.

Erik
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Bug#906622: pulseaudio: Only provides dummy output

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 12.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After a recent upgrade and then a couple of days later a reboot Pulseaudio
stopped working with the sound hardware, and only provided a single "Dummy 
output".
That was using pulseaudio 11.? and since 12.0 was available I upgraded to that, 
but
still get nothing but the "Dummy output" device.

The sound hardware is detected by "aplay":

> aplay -l
 List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3266 Analog [ALC3266 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I did notice in bug #904098 that timidity may cause this problem so I
uninstalled it, logged out and logged back in again but still only 
the dummy output.



-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_AU.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser  3.117
ii  libasound2   1.1.6-1
ii  libasound2-plugins   1.1.6-1+b1
ii  libc62.27-5
ii  libcap2  1:2.25-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.12.10-1
ii  libgcc1  1:8.2.0-3
ii  libice6  2:1.0.9-2
ii  libltdl7 2.4.6-2.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.28-2
ii  libpulse012.0-1
ii  libsm6   2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii  libsndfile1  1.0.28-4
ii  libsoxr0 0.1.2-3
ii  libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libstdc++6   8.2.0-3
ii  libsystemd0  239-7
ii  libtdb1  1.3.15-4
ii  libudev1 239-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing1  0.3-1
ii  libx11-6 2:1.6.5-1
ii  libx11-xcb1  2:1.6.5-1
ii  libxcb1  1.13-2
ii  libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii  lsb-base 9.20170808
ii  pulseaudio-utils 12.0-1

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session  1.12.10-1
ii  libpam-systemd 239-7
ii  rtkit  0.11-6

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman
pn  paprefs  
ii  pavucontrol  3.0-4
pn  pavumeter
ii  udev 239-7

-- no debconf information
# 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