[pulseaudio-discuss] Sound works, then doesn't until I log out and back in

[Alex Malinovich]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:11 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago, something (probably a software install via synaptic)
> switched me from alsa (with OSS emulation) to pulse (for which I set
> up ALSA emulation).
> 
> I'm OK with that, but it's brought a problem with it.  Sound keeps
> stopping working.  If I log out and back in, it'll usually work for
> hours or days, and then stop again. 
> 
> mplayer gives the following sort of error during the problem:
--snip--
> $ mplayer -vo sdl -ao alsa ~/movie/happyfeet/1/happy_feet.mkv
--snip--
> *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection terminated
> alsa-init: playback open error: Connection refused
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> Audio: no sound
> Starting playback...

Just as an aside here, mplayer has native pulse support now (-ao pulse),
though in this case I don't think it would help. The first thing I'd
check would be to make sure that pulseaudio is still running.

If you run "pulseaudio --check -v" from the command line it'll tell you
if you currently have an instance of pulse running or not. But usually
if pulse isn't running at all, you get a "Connection refused", not a
"Connection terminated".

I did a bit of googling on your error output and came up with this
thread from an ubuntu user:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/3735

Sounds like he just needed to install the
libgstreamer-plugins-pulse0.10-0 pulse package and the
libasound2-plugins package. The package names might be different for you
depending on which distro you're using. Hope that helps.

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