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Em 9 de jul de 2017 03:36, "Marc Shapiro" <marcns...@gmail.com> escreveu:

> At some point in the past I was having sound issues which I traced to
> pulseaudio.  I uninstalled pulseaudio and everything was fine.  Then
> Firefox decided to require pulseaudio and my sound (in Firefox) went away.
>
> I reinstalled pulseaudio and eventually got it working (I thought).  Well,
> it was working for me, but not for my wife and daughter, apparently.  Both
> of them have recently let me know that they have been without sound for an
> indeterminate period of time.
>
> This morning, I went to my wife's login and ran:
>
> pulseaudio --kill
>
> rm ~/.config/pulse
>
> pulseaudio --start
>
> And that worked.  There were some warnings about not being able to find
> the cookie file, which was understandable since I had just rm'd the
> configuration directory.  But pulseaudio recreated the directory and needed
> files and seems to be happy.  At least I am able to get sound from the
> command line, as well as from Firefox.
>
>
> When I tried to do the same thing under my daughter's login, however, I
> get the warnings about the cookie file and ~/.config/pulse is NOT
> recreated, so still no sound anywhere.  I have checked the permissions of
> my daughter's  ~/.config/pulse directory and it is 644 with her user as
> owner and group.  That matches ~/.config in my home directory and my wife's.
>
>
> So why does pulseaudio not create the files it needs, like it did for me
> and my wife?  Is there something else that I am missing? Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
>
> Marc
>
>

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