Package: enlightenment Version: 0.22.1-3 Severity: normal After upgrading from the venerable e17 package, sounds stopped working entirely on my desktop. I am not 100% certain whether the situation here is a bug in the Enlightenment package, or elsewhere, but I'm filing it here as it was triggered by an upgrade to E.
Doing some investigation into this, I enabled "PulseAudio Sound System" in Settings > Apps > Startup Applications. This didn't work - it seems to execute 'start-pulseaudio-x11' at login, which fails because it's executed at a point at which there is no pulseaudio daemon running:- $ start-pulseaudio-x11 Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Sound can be fairly trivially re-enabled by starting the user daemon from a terminal after login:- $ pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog At this point, it's still necessary to go into the settings for the mixer, and click "apply" without making any changes, at which point sound is usable as expected. According to docs, the pulseaudio daemon is supposed to be auto-spawned on demand if the libraries are used, but that appears not to be happening. My startup sequence is lightdm -> Enlightenment, and the autospawn setting of pulseaudio has not been changed from the Debian default. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (750, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages enlightenment depends on: ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.12.8-2 ii enlightenment-data 0.22.1-3 ii libasound2 1.1.6-1 ii libbluetooth3 5.49-4 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libecore-con1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore-evas1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore-file1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore-input1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore-ipc1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore-x1 1.20.7-4 ii libecore1 1.20.7-4 ii libedje-bin 1.20.7-4 ii libedje1 1.20.7-4 ii libeet1 1.20.7-4 ii libeeze1 1.20.7-4 ii libefreet-bin 1.20.7-4 ii libefreet1a 1.20.7-4 ii libeina1a 1.20.7-4 ii libeio1 1.20.7-4 ii libelementary1 1.20.7-4 ii libemile1 1.20.7-4 ii libemotion1 1.20.7-4 ii libevas1 1.20.7-4 ii libevas1-engines-x 1.20.7-4 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.7 ii libpulse0 11.1-5 ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.4.0-1+b2 ii libxcb-shape0 1.13-1 ii libxcb1 1.13-1 Versions of packages enlightenment recommends: ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.28.2-1 ii pm-utils 1.4.1-18 ii terminology [x-terminal-emulator] 1.2.1-1 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 333-1 enlightenment suggests no packages. -- no debconf information