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I have read thru many places saying what we can do to make pulseaudio work again, but nothing makes it work, they also mainly seem targeted to a "not working at all" situation, but here it works again after reboot.

So, here, only a reboot makes it work, and many times I cant just do that.

So, if I make pulseaudio stop:
https://askubuntu.com/a/10307/46437
service pulseaudio stop or pulseaudio -k

I can at least use aplay or mplayer they seem to try pulse and fallback to alsa, what is ok.

But for ex. videos on chromium+youtube will not start working when I stop pulseaudio.

I learned that if I start it as pulseaudio -vvvvv it will show some log that appears to be useful, but what should I look at there to understand why I have no sound thru it, even if using the system audio controls (when it is enabled) I see clearly it is not muted and is at 100% volume?

If I let it enabled, and play something thru aplay, pulseaudio's log will show it is playing something but there is no sound at all...

I checked at alsamixer and nothing is muted either: https://askubuntu.com/a/540219/46437

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  • if we take down pulseaudio, everything seems to default to alsa as soon we restart the application! – Aquarius Power Oct 15 '16 at 03:49
  • tried restarting pulseaudio instead of killing ? – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Oct 15 '16 at 04:40
  • @Serg yes many times with service pulseaudio restart, also pulseaudio -k that makes the daemon auto restart if we keep the autospawn config file option enabled – Aquarius Power Oct 16 '16 at 00:55
  • I found another interesting thing, if "alarm clock" applet is running an alarm playing a long music during startup, it will interfere with pulseaudio proper initialization (it seems to block pulseaudio and keep playing only in alsa?)! so now I delay it's startup with a script secDelayedExec.sh -d -w -s 120 alarm-clock-applet --hidden – Aquarius Power Oct 18 '16 at 02:20

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