Re: [SOLVED] Re: weired - no sound after upgrade

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

Every account on a machine running pulseaudio gets a .pulse directory 
structure which when pulse is disabled also needs deleting otherwise 
pulseaudio returns on reboot or system start.  That may be under 
~/.config/.pulse or ~/.config/.pulseaudio.  hth.

On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Hans wrote:

> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 03:21:47
> From: Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: [SOLVED] Re: weired - no sound after upgrade
> Resent-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:22:17 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi folks,
>
> sound is back! Yeah!
>
> However, I do not know, what was the reason. But this is what I did:
>
> First, tried to initialize the card. The first thing I did, was
>
> pulseaudio --system, which was a bad idea, as the system told me.
> Then I tried
>
> alsactl --init , alsctrl -F and alsactl -f, which all seemed to be not
> successfull.
>
> At last I tried to kill the pulseaudio demon, which did not succeed. I tried
> killall pulseaudio, kill and the process number as well killing with ksysguard
> - every time a new pulseaudio process started.
>
> Then I found (yes, one always should read manuals), pulseaudio --kill. This
> did not kill the process (as expected), but after this I remarked, that the
> sound was back.
>
> I rebooted and the sound is still working. Sadly I do not know, which of my
> commands did the trick, but maybe this little report might help others still
> somehow in the future.
>
> Thanks to all, who helped me with their hints and tips, the brought me further
> on. And I learned again much.
>
> Hip hip hurrah!
>
> Best
>
> Hans

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