LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] jackd was installed with a program in Linux Mint, now there's no sound

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Code:

$ ps -A ux | grep [p]ulseaudio

2876  0.0  0.1 427100  6900 ?        S<l  06:49  0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

I also took the liberty of checking the log output for any pulseaudio entries
I last booted my system at about 6:49 so these are all since last boot

Code:

$ cat syslog | grep pulseaudio

Feb 13 06:49:55 nolan-linuxmint pulseaudio[3386]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

Feb 13 06:50:35 nolan-linuxmint pulseaudio[2876]: [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.

Feb 13 06:51:34  pulseaudio[2876]: last message repeated 47 times

Feb 13 07:12:28 nolan-linuxmint pulseaudio[2876]: [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.

Feb 13 07:13:35  pulseaudio[2876]: last message repeated 35 times

Also I found a command to get some output from pulseaudio while doing some searching:

Code:

$ pkill pulseaudio; sleep 2; pulseaudio -vv

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted

D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.

D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.

I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 2.1

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wvla -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.5.0-45-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 2 21:58:52 UTC 2013

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes

D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is ac71b323c0b37038ecf692a95102b1f9.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is ac71b323c0b37038ecf692a95102b1f9-1392302987.479429-1294680043.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /home/nolan/.pulse/ac71b323c0b37038ecf692a95102b1f9-runtime.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/nolan/.pulse.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-2.1/modules.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no

E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

P.S. To double check that it is in fact the installation of jackd that was causing the problem I temporarily uninstalled it, the sound came back, and then went away again when I reinstalled it.