System Settings | Sound empty device list and no sound in video player, after reboot it works fine
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
on Ubuntu 16.04 I have installed VLC media player 2.2.2 from official repository.
1. File | Open and select some video.
2. Video starts playing but pop-up error appears:
Audio output failed:
The audio device "default" could not be used:
Connection refused.
See attachment: audio_error_
3. From Ubuntu's System Settings | Sound I see there is no Output device. See attachment system_
Note 1: Opening Firefox and playing videos from youtube.com and sound is working without a problem.
Note 2: I have also tried playing video in "Totem Movie Player" default Ubuntu video player and sound also does not work.
4. Work-around is to restart Ubuntu. Then looking into System Settings | Sound and devices are displayed. See attachment: system_
When running video in VLC now audio works fine. Also after reboot audio works fine when playing video from "Totem Movie Player".
I am not an audio expert, but this does look like some system sound problem and not specific video/audio player, so I have reported a problem against pusleaudio package. I hope I have reported a problem against correct package.
Regards
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jun 20 22:37:16 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-03 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/12/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 79ET62WW (1.07 )
dmi.board.name: 1951F5G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 1951F5G
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
Instead of restarting Ubuntu you can restart PulseAudio from terminal:
pulseaudio -k (wait a few seconds)
pulseaudio
Disappearing PulseAudio output devices can happen when using Firejail.
https:/ /firejail. wordpress. com/support/ known-problems/ #pulseaudio