[SOLVED] No sound after January 9th update

hitest · 01-09-2019, 12:24 AM

My sound no longer works after today's updates. I use the pulse audio plug-in for XFCE.

ponce · 01-09-2019, 02:16 AM

I can confirm this: seems related to the alsa updates as reverting to the previous versions (archived here) fixes it

Code:

alsa-lib-1.1.7-x86_64-2.txz
alsa-oss-1.1.6-x86_64-2.txz
alsa-plugins-1.1.7-x86_64-4.txz
alsa-utils-1.1.7-x86_64-1.txz

willysr · 01-09-2019, 04:04 AM

try to remove /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink

ponce · 01-09-2019, 04:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

try to remove /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink

thanks Willy, that actually seems to solve my audio-muting issue with the recent updates.

EDIT: I just found this (I forgot about it)
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...te-4175640546/

as the block in alsa-plugins.SlackBuild is now

Code:

if [ "$VERSION" = "1.1.7" ]; then
  # Remove symlink that's breaking audio:
  rm -f $PKG/etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf
fi

I would change the $VERSION check to 1.1.8 (or maybe just remove the check entirely)

mlangdn · 01-09-2019, 06:20 AM

Removing the /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink worked for me without doing anything else. Thanks Willy!

cwizardone · 01-09-2019, 07:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest

My sound no longer works after today's updates. I use the pulse audio plug-in for XFCE.

Ditto, and

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

try to remove /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink

ditto! Thanks Willysr!

hitest · 01-09-2019, 10:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlangdn

Removing the /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink worked for me without doing anything else. Thanks Willy!

Thanks. That works for me.

mralk3 · 01-09-2019, 12:40 PM

Fixed here too. Here is the error output I found in /var/log/syslog.

Code:

[root@mothership ~]# grep pulseaudio /var/log/syslog | grep "Jan  9"
Jan  9 11:11:29 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Jan  9 11:11:29 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="0" name="pci-0000_00_03.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_03.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Jan  9 11:11:29 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Jan  9 11:11:29 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="1" name="pci-0000_00_1b.0" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1b.0" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Jan  9 11:11:29 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] backend-ofono.c: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.ofono was not provided by any .service files
Jan  9 11:32:09 mothership pulseaudio[1669]: [pulseaudio] stdin-util.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Jan  9 11:34:40 mothership pulseaudio[4015]: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Jan  9 11:34:40 mothership pulseaudio[4064]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.

I did not have to reboot. Just switch to run level 1 and back to run level 3.

sombragris · 01-09-2019, 12:59 PM

excellent! I had the same issue and this solved it. Thanks!

MarcT · 01-09-2019, 04:46 PM

Thanks so much for posting this.
Same issue here. Removed symlink and bounced to runlevel 1 and back to 3. Problem solved.

netcrawl · 01-09-2019, 05:27 PM

Ditto again... thanks to those responsible for the thread and solution. All good.

hitest · 01-09-2019, 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by willysr

try to remove /etc/alsa/conf.d/98-maemo.conf symlink

Thanks for your help, willysr!

kjhambrick · 01-10-2019, 03:05 AM

Thanks for working this out all'Y'all !

-- kjh

Code:

Wed Jan  9 22:44:36 UTC 2019
a/kernel-generic-4.19.14-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-huge-4.19.14-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/kernel-modules-4.19.14-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
a/sysvinit-2.93-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched to fix version number display.
a/util-linux-2.33.1-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
d/kernel-headers-4.19.14-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
k/kernel-source-4.19.14-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
l/alsa-plugins-1.1.8-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Remove symlink that breaks audio output.
extra/pure-alsa-system/alsa-plugins-1.1.8-x86_64-2_alsa.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Remove symlink that breaks audio output.
isolinux/initrd.img:  Rebuilt.
kernels/*:  Upgraded.
usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img:  Rebuilt.

camorri · 01-10-2019, 09:04 AM

I have the latest updates on my current system, and observed the ' loss of audio ' after the Jan 9th updates. I removed the symlink, as others reported, and got audio back.

I have observed Pavuctrl no longer shows the audio playing underneath the VLC player audio stream in the display. I first noticed this after the alsa updated.

It is not a show stopper, just an observation. Anyone else see this?

I have both sets of updates install from Jan 9 th.

cwizardone · 01-10-2019, 09:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

......I have observed Pavuctrl no longer shows the audio playing underneath the VLC player audio stream in the display. I first noticed this after the alsa updated.

It is not a show stopper, just an observation. Anyone else see this? .....

Yes. Same here.