Right, I'm having fun with PA not working and having to log out and in to get it up and running again. For reasons I can't explain, PA just stops responding. This can be seen in a number of ways: The sound on VMWare Player complains that /dev/snd (I think) isn't available. Rhythmbox will seem to work fine, but any attempt to play a file results in no sound and the time-line indicator doesn't move from the start (or actually, it starts to move and then goes back to the start). Sounds from various applications don't play. > This sounds as if some other process blocked the audio device when > switching back the session so that PA was unable to reopen the device > and thus playback stays suspended. > > Could you please check this, by running "pactl" in a terminal when > this happens again, and then type "list-sinks"? If your sound card > sink remains in SUSPENDED state, than this is most likely the issue. > > Or, you might have hit the well-known issue HAL where it fails to > restore ACLs sometimes and thus PA is not able to reopen the device > properly. Check getfacl /dev/snd/* So, I'm intersted in this so I can try to debug this and provide useful information for resolving this issue. I tried running pactl, but get this: [rodd@localhost ~]$ pactl No valid command specified. I then tried [rodd@localhost ~]$ pactl list-sinks No valid command specified. Finally I did a check of man pactl and then tried 'pactl list' but this gives a huge output, only some of which is 'sinks'. How would I tell what state my sound card is in (currently it's working, but I wanted to try all this while everything worked so I could see what's changed.) R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
