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blur13
Hi!
I realise pulseaudio has become a contentious issue on this forum of late. I have no opinion on its merits, I only need it because a few programs I use depend on it.
I have “pulseaudio -D &” in the startup file, using antiX 19.5. Recently, sometimes it does not start. So I run the command manually. Only to sometimes find out that it has quit when trying to run a program that depends on it. Running “pulseaudio -D” solves the problem. However, I now find myself running this command quite frequently, when before I never did. Has anyone else had this issue?
I suspect that it might have to do with the latest upgrade to “pulseaudio 12.2-4+deb10u1.0nosystemd1”. Is there any way to restore it to the previous version? I’d like to do some testing to see if that is indeed the cause of the issue.
Thanks!
anticapitalista
Hi!
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I suspect that it might have to do with the latest upgrade to “pulseaudio 12.2-4+deb10u1.0nosystemd1”. Is there any way to restore it to the previous version? I’d like to do some testing to see if that is indeed the cause of the issue.
Thanks!
1. Remove all pulseaudio
2. Remove nosystemd part in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
3. sudo apt update
4. Install pulseaudio via Package InstallerPhilosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
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calciumsodium
Hi,
I have the same problem as @blur13.
I tried your suggestion, but when I tried to install pulseaudio after removing the nosystemd part in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list,
I get this error:The following packages have unmet dependencies: pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 12.2-4+deb10u1) but 13.0-3~bpo10+1 is to be installed Depends: pulseaudio-utils but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.anticapitalista
Make sure Debian buster-backports repos are commented out.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Hi,
I get this error when I commented out the Debian buster-backports repos:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 12.2-4+deb10u1) but 12.2-4+deb10u1.0nosystemd1 is to be installed Depends: pulseaudio-utils but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.anticapitalista
You need to downgrade libpulse0 to use the buster version.
Was pulseaudio working correctly without intermittently quitting antiX-19 (pre 19.5) before latest pulseaudio update in antiX nosystemd repos?
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
Was pulseaudio working correctly without intermittently quitting antiX-19 (pre 19.5) before latest pulseaudio update in antiX nosystemd repos?
From my experience, yes.
Thanks for looking into this issue.anticapitalista
I can reproduce this issue, but I’m not sure what exactly is causing the issue in antiX-19x and what will fully fix it.
This *seems* to work.1. buster-backports repos turned off
2. using default (latest) pulseaudio debs (and pavucontrol) from antiX nosystemd repo
3. make sure pulseaudio -D & is in .desktop-defaults startup fie above the volumeicon one.
4. added sleep 3 && before volumeicon entry so it looks like this – sleep 3 && volumeicon &
5. right-click on volume icon in tray, Preferences > External mixer (change to pavucontrol)
6. make sure libelogind0 is installed
7, apt purge seatd (this will bring in consolekit stuff).
8. Reboot
9. TestPhilosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
blur13
Not sure I understand,
2) so basically, dont edit the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list ?
3,4,5) I have the volume icon commented out, should I uncomment?
7) this did nothing on my system
Anyways, the above did not solve the issue for me.
Thank you for looking into this. If its not fixable I suppose I could go back to 19.4 and remove nosystemd from the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list and prevent the nosystemd stuff from installing?
anticapitalista
@blur13
My post 77052 is with pulseaudio 12.2-4+deb10u1.0nosystemd1 and seeing if this can be fixed without downgrading pulseaudio.
If you do try 19.4, you could manually update the packages with the default settings, but make sure pulseaudio/libpulse0 does not get upgraded.
Then you can comment out the nosystemd bit and see if pulseaudio works as it should.
If it does, then the issue would be the latest pulseaudio update.Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
anticapitalista
Which apps seem to kill pulseaudio?
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caprea
Because there was a member who had the problem that chromium update kicked off his pulseaudio I ask.
Do you use chromium browser?Probably has nothing to do with the problem here,just want to rule this out.blur13
No, I dont use chromium.
It really is “intermittent” in the sense that it seems unrelated to specific apps, it just randomly quits. I started pulseaudio, did some surfing in links2 and mail checking in Alpine for half an hour and when I looked in htop pulseaudio was gone. I started it again, fired up firefox to type this, and now its gone. Very strange.
4. added sleep 3 && before volumeicon entry so it looks like this – sleep 3 && volumeicon &
Adding the sleep 3 before the launch of volumeicon seems to make pulseaudio more stable:
pulseaudio -D & sleep 3 && volumeicon &Thank you for the tip.
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