[SOLVED ]No more sound after updating

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alex6 · Post by **alex6** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:21 pm

I have the following error that may be related :

su -c 'pkill -9 pulseaudio' && pulseaudio

W: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/alex6/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key '/home/alex6/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory

alamahant · Post by **alamahant** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:04 pm

What is the output of

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emerge -pv pulseaudio pulseaudio-daemon

?

alex6 · Post by **alex6** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:07 pm

emerge -pv pulseaudio pulseaudio-daemon

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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] media-sound/pulseaudio-16.1::gentoo  USE="glib -bluetooth -daemon -jack -ofono-headset" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB
[ebuild   R    ] media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1::gentoo  USE="X alsa alsa-plugin asyncns dbus elogind gdbm glib gstreamer orc ssl udev webrtc-aec -aptx -bluetooth -equalizer -fftw -jack -ldac -lirc -ofono-headset (-oss) (-selinux) -sox (-system-wide) -systemd -tcpd -test -valgrind -zeroconf" 0 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

alamahant · Post by **alamahant** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:23 pm

Try

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mkdir ~/.config/pulse

and restart pulseaudio.
If you are using pulseaudio instead of pipewire then you should build it with USE="daemon"
And you can start it via

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/etc/init.d/pulseaudio start

alex6 · Post by **alex6** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:13 pm

I already have an empty

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~/.config/pulse

I reinstalled it with the daemon, however, there is nothing like "/etc/init.d/pulseaudio" file.

I tried running it :

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pulseaudio 
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

I still don't have any sound...

garrison · Post by **garrison** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:26 pm

alex6 wrote:I still don't have any sound...

Check 'pactl list sinks' if you have any sink muted.
Normally pulseaudio should be starting with your desktop session under your normal user account, so there is no init.d entry.

alex6 · Post by **alex6** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 7:53 pm

The "suspended" state is anormal ?

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Sink #1
	State: SUSPENDED
	Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
	Description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo
	Driver: module-alsa-card.c
	Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
	Channel Map: front-left,front-right
	Owner Module: 7
	Mute: yes
	Volume: front-left: 62586 /  95% / -1.20 dB,   front-right: 62586 /  95% / -1.20 dB
	        balance 0.00
	Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
	Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor
	Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
	Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY 
	Properties:
		alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
		device.api = "alsa"
		device.class = "sound"
		alsa.class = "generic"
		alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
		alsa.name = "ALC887-VD Analog"
		alsa.id = "ALC887-VD Analog"
		alsa.subdevice = "0"
		alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
		alsa.device = "0"
		alsa.card = "0"
		alsa.card_name = "HDA ATI SB"
		alsa.long_card_name = "HDA ATI SB at 0xfe400000 irq 16"
		alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
		device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:14.2"
		sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0"
		device.bus = "pci"
		device.vendor.id = "1002"
		device.vendor.name = "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]"
		device.product.id = "4383"
		device.product.name = "SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)"
		device.form_factor = "internal"
		device.string = "front:0"
		device.buffering.buffer_size = "65536"
		device.buffering.fragment_size = "32768"
		device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
		device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
		device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
		device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
		module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
		device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
	Ports:
		analog-output-lineout: Line Out (type: Line, priority: 9000, available)
		analog-output-headphones: Headphones (type: Headphones, priority: 9900, not available)
	Active Port: analog-output-lineout
	Formats:
		pcm

garrison · Post by **garrison** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 5:29 am

Suspended state is normal if nothing is playing through this sink; note it is Mute: yes so you need to unmute it.

alex6 · Post by **alex6** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 8:16 am

Thanks, that was the source of the problem.

Solved by using :

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pactl set-sink-mute 3 toggle

(the number of my sink was 3)