pulseaudio not loading properly
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My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.
I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.
I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.
For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.
18.04 sound pulseaudio alsa
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My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.
I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.
I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.
For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.
18.04 sound pulseaudio alsa
asked Nov 24 at 16:54
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My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.
I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.
I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.
For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.
18.04 sound pulseaudio alsa
asked Nov 24 at 16:54
EarthToAccess
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My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.
I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.
I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.
For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.
18.04 sound pulseaudio alsa
18.04 sound pulseaudio alsa
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