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    Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    I'm running Lucid Lynx in a dual boot with Vista on a Gateway M6319. My volume control icon has "---" instead of the volume level indicator, and when I click preferences it says "Waiting for sound system to respond."
    I've spent a good part of my day searching through the forums, so far no luck. I tried deleting the .pulse file and restarting, no change.

    Please help me figure out what is wrong with my sound.

    Edit: I tried this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578 But I can't get past step 4, since this is my problem to begin with.
    Last edited by Meganehmbee; June 18th, 2010 at 07:35 AM.

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    Quote Originally Posted by Meganehmbee View Post
    "Waiting for sound system to respond."
    It is likely the pulseaudio daemon is not running (very likely if you have recently upgraded). You can start it with either of these commands from the terminal (Applications-Accessories-Terminal)
    Code:
    pulseaudio --start
    #or
    sudo service pulseaudio start
    You can try both these commands in order, it will not harm any configuration on your system.

    If it works, your volume icon should change within 2-3 seconds, there is no need for a reboot/logoff.

    Please post back with results.
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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    Thanks for the help. Still no change.

    Code:
    pulseaudio --start
    E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
    Code:
    sudo service pulseaudio start
    * PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    Sigh. Try:
    Code:
    pulseaudio --kill
    pulseaudio --start --log-level=4 --log-target=syslog
    cat /var/log/syslog
    Post the output of the last command.

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    I have a Plantronics GameCom Pro1 headset. The volume control works but there is no sound. I tried the following:

    [code]pulseaudio --kill
    pulseaudio --start --log-level=4 --log-target=syslog
    cat /var/log/syslog

    System responded with a long list of actions ending with:

    [code]pulseaudio[2017]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
    rtkit-daemon[1433]: Sucessfully made thread 2018 of process 2018 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
    rtkit-daemon[1433]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
    pulseaudio[2018]: pid.c: Daemon already running.

    Still no sound.

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    I am having a similar problem (the problem appeared yesterday). It seems that pulseaudio is trying to start again and again, leaving a zombie process. The command ''ps -el | grep pulse'' shows a process ID that is growing ever and ever:

    Code:
    $ ps -el | grep pulse
    0 S  1000 12778  5036  0  80   0 -  4595 pipe_w ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
    1 S  1000 12780 12778  0  80   0 - 21093 hrtime ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
    1 Z  1000 12786 12780  0  80   0 -     0 exit   ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio <defunct>
    one minute later...

    Code:
    $ ps -el | grep pulse
    0 S  1000 12912  5036  0  80   0 -  4595 pipe_w ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
    1 S  1000 12914 12912  0  80   0 - 21093 hrtime ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio
    1 Z  1000 12918 12914  0  80   0 -     0 exit   ?        00:00:00 pulseaudio <defunct>
    Maybe my problem is different. My syslog shows:

    Code:
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou pulseaudio[13246]: module-jack-sink.c: jack_client_open() failed.
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou pulseaudio[13246]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-jack-sink" (argument: "channels=2"): initialization failed.
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou pulseaudio[13246]: main.c: Module load failed.
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou pulseaudio[13246]: main.c: Échec lors de l'initialisation du démon
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou pulseaudio[13244]: main.c: Échec lors du démarrage du démon.
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou rtkit-daemon[4919]: Failed to make ourselves RT: Invalid argument
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou rtkit-daemon[4919]: last message repeated 2 times
    Jun 19 12:51:35 pc-manou rtkit-daemon[4919]: Warning: Reached burst limit for user '1000', denying request.
    Jun 19 12:51:41 pc-manou rtkit-daemon[4919]: last message repeated 7 times
    This shows that my problem in an interaction between ''pulseaudio'' and ''jackd''. It is not the same as the problem initially posted in this thread. Sorry!
    Last edited by yvesg; June 19th, 2010 at 12:34 PM. Reason: solved

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    There is never any point to the pulseaudio --kill command in the usual system. Pulseaudio is set to autospawn (by default) which means that the very next second after you use the --kill command, (or kill the pulseaudio process), it restarts immediately; which is the same action by the (safer) restart / start command.

    Please post your /etc/pulse/client.conf and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf files, eg
    Code:
    cat /etc/pulse/client.conf
    cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    I've been having a problem with Pulseaudio as well, this since installing Lucid.

    Lucid is on a laptop, which I connect to my TV using HDMI. This works well, and I can definitely hear the sound correctly through this output. I can also hear the sound correctly through the built-in system speakers. But when I try to listen thru the headphones, I can only hear the background surround track - I cannot hear middle, voice is only at a ultra-low volume and garbled, and I need to be able to hear full volume thru headphones.

    I've followed the Alsa upgrade script, I've gone thru this thread as well (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578), yet nothing seems to work. At this point I'm now experiencing the same problems as above - "Waiting for sound system to respond" is the only message I get now, even though I CAN STILL HEAR SOUND. But now, even the sound device chooser (which was available 5 minutes ago) is gone and unavailable, I only have the error message.

    I've gone through a dozen threads, nothing is working... Help!
    Last edited by couzin2000; June 20th, 2010 at 02:33 PM. Reason: added notification
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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    Using a Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
    Code:
    rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound* 
    sudo rm /etc/asound.conf
    Logout/in.

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    Re: Waiting For Sound System to Respond Lucid Lynx

    Quote Originally Posted by lidex View Post
    Using a Terminal="Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
    Code:
    rm -r ~/.pulse ~/.asound* 
    sudo rm /etc/asound.conf
    Logout/in.
    It would help me to know why I would be removing these files... for now, I HAVE audio - I wanna ensure I'm keeping it!
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