[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio failed to start at ubuntu 21.04

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2021-12-18 at 05:51 +0800, su wrote:
> pulseaudio failed to start  with a usb remote  pluged into the embedded pc . The error message at journalctl is : 
> 
> 
> -- Boot 37de7028dfda47569d03504658160650 --
> Dec 11 04:46:09 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: Starting Sound Service...
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server pulseaudio[1967]: No such profile: output:hdmi-stereo
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server pulseaudio[1967]: Failed to initialize daemon due to errors while executing startup commands. Source of commands: /etc/pulse/>
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: Failed to start Sound Service.
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: Stopped Sound Service.
> Dec 11 04:46:10 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: Starting Sound Service...
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server pulseaudio[2087]: No such profile: output:hdmi-stereo
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server pulseaudio[2087]: Failed to initialize daemon due to errors while executing startup commands. Source of commands: /etc/pulse/>
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: Failed to start Sound Service.
> Dec 11 04:46:11 hirsute-server systemd[1958]: pulseaudio.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
> 
> 
> This case only applies to a usb remote with microphone and it only happens during cool boot of the embedded pc. Another word , pulseaudio works if the pc boots without the remote.
> And pulseaudio works too with the usb remote plugged in after system boots. Please note that this case happens with another usb remote ( with different usb vendor ID ) too.
> If you need more info. , please donot hesitate to let me know. Thanks !

"No such profile" is printed in two cases:

* module-alsa-card is loaded with the "profile=" argument, but the
specified profile is not found

* The startup script contains a set-card-profile command, or you run
"pacmd set-card-profile", and the specified profile is not found.

What do you have in /etc/pulse/default.pa and /etc/pulse/system.pa?

-- Tanu