No sound played

[Kurt Huwig]

the error dialog popped up after no sound played.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D0', '/dev/snd/hwC1D1', '/dev/snd/hwC1D2', '/dev/snd/hwC1D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D9p', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/controlC29', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun May 4 20:05:12 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-21 (72 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-16 (18 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/22/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: G4ET93WW (2.53 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 2429NB8
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Defined
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG4ET93WW(2.53):bd02/22/2013:svnLENOVO:pn2429NB8:pvrThinkPadT530:rvnLENOVO:rn2429NB8:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2429NB8
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T530
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Páll Haraldsson (pall-haraldsson)]

I wander if this bug is related to (can I provide "wikilink" between..?):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/musescore/+bug/1284273

I'm not saying they are duplicates or confirming this one. I'm a little new to this (sound problems).

Did you have no sound straight after upgrading from 13.10? Is that it or maybe something in between as installing some program, musescore or otherwise?

[Kurt Huwig (k-huwig)]

Hi Pall,

this bug only happened once and I am unable to reproduce it. So I cannot
say if it is related. I have both gawk and mawk installed.

Greetings,

Kurt

2014-05-12 17:22 GMT+02:00 Páll Haraldsson <email address hidden>:

> I wander if this bug is related to (can I provide "wikilink"
> between..?):
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/musescore/+bug/1284273
>
> I'm not saying they are duplicates or confirming this one. I'm a little
> new to this (sound problems).
>
> Did you have no sound straight after upgrading from 13.10? Is that it or
> maybe something in between as installing some program, musescore or
> otherwise?
>
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[Páll Haraldsson (pall-haraldsson)]

Hi Kurt,

>I have both gawk and mawk installed.

What were you trying to do? That is, in what application didn't you get a sound? If you had gawk installed for sure at the time, then your problem is not a duplicate of the "musecore" bug. I'm told that bug is not in pulseaudo (I'm not convinced, and will investigate and report only in that bug).

Could it be that you didn't have gawk installed (it is not included by default in 14.04 and neither *I think* in 13.10) and you installed something that brought that package in (not always obvious) and then your "sound-program" started working, whether it was musescore or something else?

Note gawk doesn't really have anything to do with sound on it's own and sound works out-of-the-box in 14.04 in all installed applications I assume. The other bug just proves that a missing gawk AND installing aprogram (eg. musescore) can disable it.