<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body><div style="font-family:Arial;">Hi,<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Is it possible that your sound card was held busy by another process, maybe by Pulseaudio running under a different user?<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The Pulse ALSA plugin usually prevents applications from opening the hardware device (routing them through Pulse instead).<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Laurentiu<br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>On Mon, Sep 18, 2017, at 12:37, <a href="mailto:mycomp@tutanota.com">mycomp@tutanota.com</a> wrote:<br></div> <blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Can anyone please help with the following problem ?<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The sound on a desktop PC running Debian Jessie has stopped working - no<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">sound from any websites (e.g. BBC or YouTube) and trying to play a<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">standard sound file I have saved which is used to test the sound with<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">vlc gives:<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Audio output failed:<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The audio device "default" could not be used:<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Device or resource busy.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">and in the terminal window it says:<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c)<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">[00000000013f0608] pulse audio output error: PulseAudio server<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">connection failure: Connection refused<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">[0000000001318118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">[00000000013f0608] alsa audio output error: cannot open ALSA device<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">"default": Device or resource busy<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">[00000000013f0608] core audio output error: module not functional<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">[00007fc2a8c02b08] core decoder error: failed to create audio output<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The sound was then suddenly regained.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The sound has now been suddenly lost again.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">Loose wiring is not suspected.<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;">The only file in /etc/pulse is client.conf<br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"> -- <br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"> Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! <br></div> <div style="font-family:Arial;"> <a href="https://tutanota.com">https://tutanota.com</a> <br></div> <div><u>_______________________________________________</u><br></div> <div>pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br></div> <div><a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br></div> <div><a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a><br></div> </blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div> </body> </html>