Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

[Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net>]

On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote:

On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:

In reply to your question:

   root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa
   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29  2012 /var/lib/alsa
   root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root
   drwx------ 15 gary gary 4096 Sep  3 18:21 /root

I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't
yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than
root. Try this:

chown root.root /root

and try starting alsa again.

Greg

Greg

You were correct. I'm not sure why root got marked gary:gary but that stopped Alsa from being restarted. I still don't have sound so I'll be back as soon a I can find something concrete wrong.

Thanks

Gary R

Further investigation showed that pulseaudio wasn't running either. Attempts to restart failed. From the Ubantu Forum (Temujin April 25, 2011) I reset the pulseaudio configuration with:

dpkg --purge --force-depends pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio start." This  worked but still no sound. I started VLC player and with tools > preferences > audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Audio > Visualizations picked the VU meters. These showed that I was receiving a signal. I then started the PulseAudio Volume Meter and found that I was also getting a signal out of pulseaudio. I still don't have any sound.

I'll be back

Gary R.