[pulseaudio-discuss] no sound from pulseaudio

[Juergen Bausa]

Hi,

I wanted to switch from esd to pulseaudio on my debian etch system. So I 
stopped the esd (which worked fine before, using alsa as backend), installed 
all the pulseaudio packages, added myself to the pulse, pulse-rt and pulse-access 
groups and started the daemon. However,  I cant hear any sound:

>
>jba at lisa:~$ paplay /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
>Failed to drain stream: Timeout
>jba at lisa:~$

(no sound) And:

>jba at lisa:~$ pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav
>jba at lisa:~$ pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav pop
>jba at lisa:~$ pactl play-sample pop
>jba at lisa:~$                     

(no sound) 

But:

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jba at lisa:~$ ps axu | grep pulse
pulse     3775  0.0  0.1   7064  2784 ?        S<s  12:29   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0
jba at lisa:~$ pactl stat
Currently in use: 2 blocks containing 9.2 KiB bytes total.
Allocated during whole lifetime: 7 blocks containing 59.7 KiB bytes total.
Sample cache size: 7.9 KiB
User name: pulse
Host Name: lisa.home.net
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 0.9.5
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci_10de_26c_alsa_playback_0
Default Source: alsa_input.pci_10de_26c_alsa_capture_0
Cookie: 4b8f7d70
jba at lisa:~$ pactl list
*** Module #0 ***
Name: module-alsa-sink
Argument: device=hw:0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_10de_26c_alsa_playback_0
Usage counter: 0
Auto unload: no

*** Module #1 ***
Name: module-alsa-source
Argument: device=hw:0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_10de_26c_alsa_capture_0
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Module #2 ***
Name: module-hal-detect
Argument: (null)
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Module #3 ***
Name: module-esound-protocol-unix
Argument: (null)
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Module #4 ***
Name: module-native-protocol-unix
Argument: (null)
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Module #5 ***
Name: module-volume-restore
Argument: (null)
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Module #6 ***
Name: module-rescue-streams
Argument: (null)
Usage counter: n/a
Auto unload: no

*** Sink #0 ***
Name: alsa_output.pci_10de_26c_alsa_playback_0
Driver: modules/module-alsa-sink.c
Description: ALSA PCM on hw:0 (HDA Generic)
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 0
Volume: 0:  82% 1:  82%
Monitor Source: 0
Latency: 57333 usec
Flags: HW_VOLUME_CTRL LATENCY HARDWARE

*** Source #0 ***
Name: alsa_output.pci_10de_26c_alsa_playback_0.monitor
Driver: modules/module-alsa-sink.c
Description: Monitor Source of ALSA PCM on hw:0 (HDA Generic)
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 0
Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%
Monitor of Sink: 0
Latency: 0 usec
Flags:

*** Source #1 ***
Name: alsa_input.pci_10de_26c_alsa_capture_0
Driver: modules/module-alsa-source.c
Description: ALSA PCM on hw:0 (HDA Generic)
Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 48000Hz
Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Owner Module: 1
Volume: 0:  84% 1:  84%
Monitor of Sink: no
Latency: 0 usec
Flags: HW_VOLUME_CTRL LATENCY HARDWARE

*** Sink Input #2 ***
Name: sample:pop
Driver: pulsecore/play-memchunk.c
Owner Module: n/a
Client: n/a
Sink: 0
Sample Specification: float32le 1ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: mono
Volume: 0: 100%
Buffer Latency: 0 usec
Sink Latency: 57333 usec
Resample method: src-sinc-fastest

*** Client #6 ***
Name: pactl
Driver: pulsecore/protocol-native.c
Owner Module: 4

*** Sample #0 ***
Name: pop
Volume: 0: 100%
Sample Specification: float32le 1ch 44100Hz
Channel Map: mono
Duration: 0.0s
Size: 7.9 KiB
Lazy: no
Filename: n/a
jba at lisa:~$     

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So, pulseaudio seems to run. These are the messages from syslog, when starting the system:
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Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: alsa-util.c: device doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: alsa-util.c: device doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: sound-file.c: Failed to open file /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-x11-bell" (argument: "sample=x11-bell"): initialization failed.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-x11-publish" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module-gconf.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-gconf" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: main.c: Failed to load sound file.
Nov  1 12:29:14 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: main.c: Module load failed.
Nov  1 12:29:37 lisa pulseaudio[3775]: protocol-esound.c: kicked client with invalid authorization key.

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The 'authorization' messages seems to come from kde, which tries to connect to esd, which is emulated by pulseaudio.

Any hints?

Juergen


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