On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote:
On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote:
On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
In reply to your question:
root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa
root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root
drwx------ 15 gary gary 4096 Sep 3 18:21 /root
I do stand to be corrected, but I think that's the problem. I haven't
yet come across a system where /root was owned by some user other than
root. Try this:
chown root.root /root
and try starting alsa again.
Greg
Greg
You were correct. I'm not sure why root got marked gary:gary but that
stopped Alsa from being restarted. I still don't have sound so I'll
be back as soon a I can find something concrete wrong.
Thanks
Gary R
Further investigation showed that pulseaudio wasn't running either.
Attempts to restart failed. From the Ubantu Forum (Temujin April 25,
2011) I reset the pulseaudio configuration with:
dpkg --purge --force-depends pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio
start." This worked but still no sound. I started VLC player and with
tools > preferences > audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output
device. I started an arbitrary icecast and under Audio >
Visualizations picked the VU meters. These showed that I was receiving
a signal. I then started the PulseAudio Volume Meter and found that I
was also getting a signal out of pulseaudio. I still don't have any
sound.
I'll be back
Gary R.
And last but not least, I found the speaker / amplifier sound cable
plugged into the wrong jack on my KVM switch. Everything now works.
Thanks to all
Gary R.
