Public bug reported: Thanks in advance for your time.
I've got a bit of a problem with pulseaudio. It wont work. I've tried deleting the .pulse folder. Tried adding it to the startup applications. Nothing helps. I got this error because I tried to uninstall pulseaudio to fix sync problems when watching movies. I ended up losing all sound, and had to reinstall it. Didn't get the sound back until I installed JACK. But now when I try to go to the Sound preferences I get "Waiting for sound system to respond" which is disconcerting because I can't switch the sound output to the HDMI cable when I wanna watch movies on my TV. Any help would be much appreciated; I'd rather not reinstall Ubuntu if I can help it. Here's some of the output I got when I tried troubleshooting this myself: $ ps auxw|grep pulse keefer 4271 0.0 0.0 13124 1060 pts/1 S+ 12:45 0:00 grep --color=auto pulse $ pactl stat Connection failure: Connection refused $ pacmd set-log-time 1 No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/822904 Title: [pulseaudio] Waiting for sound system to respond.. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/822904/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs