(Solved) Pulse audio volume control hangs, won’t launch

[Member meurglys]

I installed pulse audio from the package installer, and when I go to launch the volume control it freezes and won’t start. I tried also installing it from Synaptic and using apt-get…but similar results.

Currently using antix 19 full, 32-bit, but also noticed similar result in the 64-bit version as well

Am I missing a library or some dev program to get it to run?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by meurglys.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by meurglys.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Did you reboot after installation?

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[Member meurglys]

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Yes, I tried rebooting…no dice!

When I launch it, it hangs and says ‘Establishing connection to PulseAudio, Please wait..’

If I run pavucontrol in a terminal, I can adjust the settings, but if I reboot, the gui application hangs again.

And, in the terminal

meurglys@ma3a:~
$ pavucontrol

(pavucontrol:18968): dbind-WARNING **: 12:54:24.248: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Try adding pulseaudio -D &
to ~/.desktop-session/startup file – reboot

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[Member meurglys]

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That worked. Thanks @anticapitalista

[Member seaken64]

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anticapitalista wrote:

Try adding pulseaudio -D &
to ~/.desktop-session/startup file – reboot

anti, can you explain what that does? I think the & means stay resident? What is the -D for?

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-D = start the pulseaudio daemon.
pulsaudio uses systemd by default, but antiX doesn’t so we need to run the daemon at desktop.

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[Member seaken64]

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Ah, great. Thanks. And Pulseudio is not installed in any of the antiX versions by default, right?

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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That’s right. IMHO alsa does as good a job if not better.
eg if you install pulseaudio and add the pulseaudio -D & line to start the daemon (as you must), RAM increases by about 20MB!

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[Member oparun]

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I’ve uncommented this pulseaudio -D in startup file. Changed volumeicon configuration (so it’ll use pavucontrol) and i still get no sound at the startup. To “turn in on” i have to go into pavucontrol – configuration – profile and select “Analog Stereo Duplex”. And only then do i have sound. What should i do to avoid that chain of actions?

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What should i do to avoid that chain of actions?

wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio
wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting
wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples#Set_the_default_output_sink
.

^— have a look at the “Examples” page. If unsure, fallback to reading the more general wiki pages.

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hi oparun.

I have noted a similar thing with pavucontrol. I have a headset plugged in and the laptop has built in speakers. Sometimes I have lost sound and have to play with both sets of controls in configuration in order to get sound back and out the desired source.

I am using pavucontrol with pipewire on Sid so I am not sure if it is the same mechanism.

Hasn’t happened much and mostly stable with reboots, so I haven’t tried to understand it.

stevesr0

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@stevesr0

I had the same problem with my laptop. I plugged in headphones and the sound would keep coming from the speakers. Had to switch output manually in pavucontrol. I added the following at the end of /etc/pulse/default.pa

load-module module-switch-on-connect

Now whenever I connect headphones, speakers, etc, the sound switches to the appropriate output.

[Member oparun]

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I’ve tried Arch on this board and had zero problems with pulseaudio.
The more i’m getting under the Antix hood, the more i’m getting some antix – specific problems.
Probably it’s high time for me to switch to something stable and predictable.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Sound om antiX works fine for most people OOTB ie with alsa.
Pulseaudio seems to cause more problems to more people whether on antiX or any other distro.

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