[SOLVED] Pulseaudio issues.

ronaldmcdonald · 01-21-2021, 07:43 AM

Hi, I'm having issues with pulseaudio.I rebooted and when I started pavucontrol is tells me "Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait..

Can anyone help, I have no sound.

Thanks

Didier Spaier · 01-21-2021, 08:05 AM

Hi and welcome.
We need more information to help you. At the very least:

Which Slackware version are you running?
Is it a full installation?
What was the context before rebooting?
Did you reboot on console mode or in a graphical environment, in the latter case which one?
Did you make modifications or customization of the system and which ones?

ronaldmcdonald · 01-21-2021, 08:15 AM

Didier Spaier, where do I get more information? I can't find anything in syslog or messages about the problem.
Sorry, I'm quite new to Linux and Slackware.

ronaldmcdonald · 01-21-2021, 08:45 AM

Well, I think I've solved it temporary but not sure why it happened in the first place. I pgrep the pid and killed it and started pavuaudio and it worked.

bassmadrigal · 01-21-2021, 11:02 AM

One of the common causes of issues with pulseaudio is starting it as a system daemon (making /etc/rc.d/rc.pulseaudio executable). That is not recommended and it is suggested to leave it non-executable and simply let the system start it on-demand (ie automagically). I'm not sure if this applies to you, but figured I'd post it anyway.

ronaldmcdonald · 01-21-2021, 11:16 AM

Thanks bassmadrigal, It happened once again before I saw your post and did what you suggested and so far It's working fine.

LuckyCyborg · 01-23-2021, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ronaldmcdonald

Thanks bassmadrigal, It happened once again before I saw your post and did what you suggested and so far It's working fine.

Nice that you sorted it out!

Now, better you should mark this thread as [SOLVED] before it would be discovered by the ALSA purists who will try to explain you worth of 20 pages how ALSA is better than that Poettering software...