cannot start pulseaudio daemon after adjusting libGL.so.1 settings for skype
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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big-skype (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
bumblebee (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Installing skype from the partner repositories. Try to start Skype. It fails. Search online. Found someone else with same error message.
Follow instructions in first answer with similar error reported in console. This was what I typed:
update-alternatives --display i386-linux-
sudo update-alternatives --config i386-linux-
(switched to /usr/lib/
` Selection Path Priority Status
-------
0 /usr/lib/
* 1 /usr/lib/
2 /usr/lib/
`
then ran `sudo ldconfig`.
Fixes skype issues! Sound works, skype works.
Later:
Restart computer.
Damn. No ability to adjust sound through pulse, only through alsamixer... the sound icon in the top right is greyed out, and system settings sound stuff has no effect... and, on top of that, skype sound is broken for playback, as well (though it does at least start, which is did not do before I used the AU fix listed above).
ps aux | grep pulseaudio returns nothing, and pulseaudio -D doesn't work
Anyone able to explain what's going on?
output from running pulseaudio:
E: [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to open module /usr/lib/
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
The bluetooth is a red herring, I have that intentionally disabled on restart. That has not broken the sound before, it wasn't until skype that it broke.
noticed that 'additional drivers' had me set to nvidia proprietary driver now, so tried to change that back to X.org Nouveau... That was hard, it wouldn't let me (I would restart and it would be right back on nvidia). Finally it let me be on nouveau. But I had installed and setup bumblebee previously... Maybe that's the source of my problem? But sound used to work on nouveau, even... So frustrating...
Have also tried purging pulseaudio from instructions on another ubuntu answer, then reinstalling. Now this is what I see:
kajo@kajo- Latitude- E6530:~ $ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.
:(