Re: Must run pulseaudio as root to get sound
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014, Kyle Bentley wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm running Jessie x64 with the XFCE DE. I've noticed that as of last
> week sometime, after an update, I have to kill pulseaudio, and restart
> it with "pulseaudio -D --system" in order to get any sound. I haven't
> made any modifications that I think would have any influence on
> pulseaudio, and I get the same behavior with any of the old kernels I
> boot into. I can also run alsamixer, see all sound cards, adjust
> sliders, ect... but nothing other than restarting pulse brings back
> sound.
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> Kyle B
>
> Has anyone noticed similar behavior with their machine? For
> completeness, the specs are
>
> [snip]
I have a highly customized install of Wheezy 64-bit -- No desktop
environment. Just Openbox WM, LXPanel and Debian Menu. Could never
get pulseaudio to load on start up. Had to do it manually in user
mode after I got to the GUI. Got errors/failure if I loaded it as root
or as a daemon.
Finally gave up trying to fix it. Purged it totally off the
system, manually deleted any remaining configs, rebooted,
then reinstalled. And its been working fine ever since. Loads
automatically when X starts now. I boot to a terminal, then run startx.
B
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