Resolvedagain: no sound again!

[Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com>]

once again, a reboot (requiring a couple fskings) has brought the sound 
back.

On 11/13/2016 08:20 AM, Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> This is the third time within the space of only two weeks, where one day
> I'm happily listening to music on my machine one day. then I wake up the
> next and there's no sound!
> Neither pavucontrol nor alsamixer show anything muted.
> Last time it seems a reboot  (after successfully trying and succeeding to
> listen with a livecd system) resolved the issue.
> I can't help but think some module is being shut off overnight, but
> comes back on at boot. Any ideas?
>
> On 09/11/2016 06:21 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > On 09/10/2016 08:07 PM, Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> > > On 09/10/2016 06:24 PM, deloptes wrote:
> > > > Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 09/10/2016 12:35 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > > > > Suddenly I have no sound.
> > > > > > Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to
> > > > > > Opeth.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Pulseaudio is running:
> > > > > > ps aux | grep pulseaudio
> > > > > > tony      2340  0.5  0.0 370052  6788 ?        S<l  12:24   0:01
> > > > > > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> > > > > > tony      2402  0.0  0.0   4324   104 ?        S    12:24   0:00
> > > > > > /bin/sh
> > > > > > /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
> > > > > > tony      3116  0.0  0.0  12720   964 pts/0    S+   12:28   0:00 grep
> > > > > > pulseaudio
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is on Jessie,
> > > > > > Speakers are properly plugged in, etc.
> > > > > > I'm stumped.
> > > > > > ./tony
> > > > >
> > > > > I have verified that there is no hardware problem.
> > > > > I plugged the speakers into a phone and they worked fine.
> > > > > Also, this machine has a 2nd hdd with win7 and I booted that and sound
> > > > > worked fine, so there appears to be no problem with the sound card or
> > > > > the speakers.
> > > > > Still stumped
> > > > >
> > > > > ./tony
> > > >
> > > > I would check if pulseaudio has the proper input/output devices
> > > > correctly
> > > > configured (and unmuted)
> > > I couldn't figure out how to do this (no man page for pulseaudio-utils),
> > > but eventually found something in th lxmenu for Audio->Pulseaudio Volume
> > > Contol, and found that analog output was muted.
> > > I Unmuted it and was startled by the glorious sound of YOB (doom metal),
> > > I had inadvertently left playing earlier in an instance of mocp I'd
> > > totally forgotten in a minimized terminal.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Also check in alsamixer if something relevant is muted.
> > > >
> > > > This "Suddenly I have no sound" means what exactly: listening and it
> > > > stopped
> > > > or you rebooted and it was not there anymore?
> > > >
> > > > regards
> >
> > forgot to mark this resolved...done now
> > Tony

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