Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Roger Price wrote: 
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote:
> 
> > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ?
> 
> I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual operation 
> still works correctly: 
> 
>  rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5
>  bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108
>  bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108
>  Playing Sparc Audio '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
> 
> I hear the bark.

What is it using to play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something
else?

I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio,
and after that PA has disabled OSS.

After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds?

-dsr-