On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> wrote: >> > Jun 26 12:54:57 feivel pulseaudio[3128]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to >> > load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: ""): initialization failed. >> >> Yes, this is expected, because that module needs the card details to > > Wouldn't it be better than to have the line look like this? > > #load-module module-alsa-sink <card-details>
Probably... but I don'y think we should carry a patch for that. > >> load. Is this message shown only once, or repeatedly? Does the log say >> afterwards: > > Only once. > >> [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed. >> [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. > > Yes, it did. > >> What DE/WM are you using? Were there sounds being played at the moment? > > gnome-shell, everything up-to-date sid, no sounds being displayed. When pulseaudio is working, does sound play? IIRC, gnome starts some sounds on startup. > >> This error is weird, because the module load failure should just cause >> pulseaudio to exit. Perhaps something caused PA to respawn repeatedly? > > Does it do that if it's, like, killed at the beginning of a session? Yes. By default, pulseaudio is autospawned whenever a connection is attempted. You can disable this behavior in client.conf. Did the gdm/xsession/any other log have something useful to say? Currently I'm quite stumped as to where the bug may be. > >> > I tried using this module in an attempt to figure out why my sound doesn't >> > work >> > correctly, or in other words, not at all when using the defaults. >> >> For this, try using pavucontrol. There you can see if your card is >> actually being picked up. > > I tried that before to no avail as there appeared to be something wrong with > pulseaudio in general. Since then I found the problem, a misconfigured default > sink in client.conf. I don't remember editing this file at all, but maybe that > was an old config from back when. Good that you have sound now, then. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel