On Mon, 2017-09-18 at 11:37 +0200, mycomp at tutanota.com wrote: > Can anyone please help with the following problem ? > > The sound on a desktop PC running Debian Jessie has stopped working - no > sound from any websites (e.g. BBC or YouTube) and trying to play a > standard sound file I have saved which is used to test the sound with > vlc gives: > > Audio output failed: > The audio device "default" could not be used: > Device or resource busy. > > and in the terminal window it says: > > VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c) > [00000000013f0608] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server > connection failure: Connection refused This error usually means that pulseaudio isn't running. > [0000000001318118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. > Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. > [00000000013f0608] alsa audio output error: cannot open ALSA device > "default": Device or resource busy VLC tried to use alsa instead of pulseaudio, but some other application kept the sound card busy. > [00000000013f0608] core audio output error: module not functional > [00007fc2a8c02b08] core decoder error: failed to create audio output > > The sound was then suddenly regained. > > The sound has now been suddenly lost again. > > Loose wiring is not suspected. > > The only file in /etc/pulse is client.conf That sounds like you've removed pulseaudio. client.conf is shipped with libpulse, which you clearly have installed, but /etc/pulse should also contain daemon.conf, default.pa and system.pa, and those files come with the main pulseaudio daemon package. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
