On 5 Nov 2013 22:48, "Mark LaPierre" <<a href="mailto:marklapier@aol.com">marklapier@aol.com</a>> wrote: > > On 11/05/2013 11:39 AM, Weedy wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Tanu Kaskinen > > <<a href="mailto:tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com">tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com">tanu.kaskinen@linux.intel.com</a>>> > > wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 16:57 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > On 10/25/2013 07:19 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 19:23 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > >> On 10/12/2013 07:37 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> Hey all, > > > >>> > > > >>> When I log on my sound level is set at about 35%. I have to > > use the > > > >>> sound preferences to turn the sound level up every time I log in. > > > >>> > > > >>> Other users on this same system do not have this issue. When > > they log > > > >>> in their volume is set at 100%. > > > >>> > > > >>> This leads me to believe that there must be something in my local > > > >>> settings that is turning down my sound volume settings. > > > >>> > > > >>> Does anyone have a clue were the config file might be that is > > causing > > > >>> this to happen to me and not to others? Maybe it's not > > located in my > > > >>> home because I've searched for it but I've come up empty. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> It has occured to me that I didn't include any information about my > > > >> system. Maybe this will help one of you to find an answer to > > my problem. > > > >> > > > >> CentOS release 6.4 (Final) > > > >> > > > >> Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 28 > > 14:27:42 > > > >> UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > >> > > > >> [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ rpm -qa | grep -i pulse > > > >> alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.21-3.el6.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> pulseaudio-0.9.21-14.el6_3.i686 > > > >> [mlapier@mushroom ~]$ > > > > > > > > Wow, those are old versions of PulseAudio indeed. Don't suppose > > you can > > > > move to something newer? > > > > > > > > A few options: > > > > > > > > 1. Enable verbose logging (log-level = debug in > > /etc/pulse/daemon.conf) > > > > and see what is changing the volume > > > > > > > > 2. Wipe out ~/.pulse (which will remove all your settings) and > > see if > > > > that “fixes” it > > > > > > > > -- Arun > > > > > > > > > > I tried the possible solutions suggested by Arun but the effort > > was not > > > successful. > > > > > > I tried to give it a file in my home, > > > log-target = /home/mlapier/.pulse/log, > > > but it was not happy with that. I left it at log-target = auto. > > Where > > > does the log file live? > > > > The "auto" target uses syslog, when pulseaudio is not run from an > > interactive shell (otherwise "auto" uses stderr). > > > > Syslog has the problem that it ignores debug level messages (at least on > > some systems, I'd guess it's the default behaviour). Syslog can probably > > be configured to not ignore them, but I don't know how to do that. > > > > > > destination _syslog { file("/var/log/syslog"); }; > > filter f_syslog { not facility(authpriv, mail); }; > > log { source(src); filter(f_syslog); destination(_syslog); }; > > I guess that I don't have syslog running on my system because there is > no /var/log/syslog file on my system. I'll have to see what it takes to > get it running. > > Thanks for the tip. Wat? I can't think of a distro that doesn't ship logging. You sure it's not just off? Anything in init.d/ have syslog in the name?