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Sometimes, sound stops playing in my Squeeze equipped laptop : how to establish diagnostic

Asked by [ Editor ] , Edited by Luis Uribe [ Admin ]

Sometimes, sound stops working on my Debian squeeze system.

I’d like to report a proper bug report, or at least identify where the problem may lie… but with hardware, linux kernel, pulseaudio and stuff… I really dunno where to check what’s wrong.

Everything is fine otherwise from looking at the Gnome desktop’s UIs… :–/

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thomasrutter [ Editor ]

At one point, once you’ve done all you can do to troubleshoot the information and reproduce the problem, I think that you should just go ahead and use reportbug and give as much info as you can – then others may be able to help.

Assign it to whichever package it affects for you – if that package is not actually at fault, someone can always re-assign it later.

This is pretty much the advice that was given to me when I asked a similar “how to debug this problem” question.

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olberger [ Editor ]

/etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart

Stopping PulseAudio DaemonNo process in pidfile ‘/var/run/pulse/pid’ found running; none killed.

… pulseaudio is not running.

That may explain why...


On the same hand, it seems pulseaudio was running as the user logged-in in gnome and not system-wide, somehow, so this init.d script may be worthless :-/ ... really dunno

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oz123 [ Editor ]

start with check which sound daemon you have:
/etc/init.d/pulseaudion status

if you have pulseaudio you can check debug message logs.

which sound card you have ? you can try removing and inserting the kernel module.

give us more info.

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olberger
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(I wish there would be a way to properly format such logs… dunno where to find the expected syntax by the editing boxes :–( )

# /etc/init.d/pulseaudio status pulseaudio is running.

Debug message logs… where : /var/log/syslog ? :

# grep -i pulse /var/log/syslog Oct 20 06:36:11 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3094]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Oct 20 06:48:03 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3254]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Oct 20 18:17:44 inf-8657 pulseaudio[2959]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Oct 21 08:20:07 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3055]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Oct 21 14:51:41 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 231 events suppressed Oct 21 14:51:47 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 218 events suppressed Oct 21 14:53:01 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 238 events suppressed Oct 21 14:54:01 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 228 events suppressed Oct 21 14:54:32 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 228 events suppressed Oct 21 14:54:32 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: asyncq.c: q overrun, queuing locally Oct 21 14:54:37 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 217 events suppressed Oct 21 15:00:01 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 227 events suppressed Oct 21 15:00:18 inf-8657 pulseaudio[3003]: ratelimit.c: 221 events suppressed

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