On Wed 10 Aug 2016 at 08:54:14 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Is the stretch user in the audio group? If not, maybe adding the user to > audio will help.
It is not necessary for a user to be in the audio group these days. ls -l /dev/snd/* shows all files have permissions crw-rw----+. The "+" sign indicates an ACL (Access Control List). Then (as the user) getfacl /dev/snd/* will show whether the user is on the List. > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Levi Darrell wrote: > > >Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:34:04 > >From: Levi Darrell <levidarr...@gmail.com> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: pulseaudio, derivative problems > >Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:34:37 +0000 (UTC) > >Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >I've really done it this time. > > > >I'm running Debian Stretch Testing, Kernel v. 4.3.0-1-amd64. With X Server > >I use the LXDE desktop environment. > > > >I had been using pulseaudio without any trouble. I tried to install > >audacity v. 2.1.2. I compiled it from source, but when I open audacity, it > >doesn't read any audio input or output sources. If I try to open a file and > >play it back, it says, 'Error while opening sound device. Please check the > >playback device settings and the project sample rate.' The playback device > >setting drop-down menu is greyed out, however, as is the input device > >setting. Incidentally, I have audacity installed on a Windows 10 virtual > >machine (VBox), and it works fine, but I need audacity on the host machine > >as well. > > > >Frustrated with this, I attempted a possible fix of using 'pavususpender'. > >This did not help at all. I then attempted to download Ardour, as an > >alternative to audacity, compile it from source, and install it. I was > >lacking several package dependencies, however, so I began installing them > >through the apt package manager: boost library, pkg-config, glib-2.0, > >glibmm-2.4, sndfile, liblo, taglib, vamp-sdk, vamp-hostsdk, rubberband, and > >clang. I installed the -dev version of all these packages where applicable. > >I still haven't been able to complete the installation of Ardour, for > >reasons which are not the object of this inquiry. > > > >Now pulseaudio won't work at all, in addition to several other programs. > >Issuing 'pulseaudio' returns 'pid.c: Daemon already running; main.c: > >pa_pid_file_create() failed.' however if I issue 'pavucontrol', a dialog > >box flashes for an instant and then disappears, and the volume control gui > >tool never opens. The volume control keyboard shortcuts still work (I still > >have sound), but they must be going through alsa. > > > >Even more inexplicably, the same thing happens if I try to open up a pdf > >file with evince, and when I try to use the firefox browser. A dialog box > >flashes for an instant, but the program never opens. The screenshot > >accessory has also stopped working. Chromium-based browsers are still > >working just fine, however, and for viewing pdf files I can still use > >Master PDF Editor 3. > > > >These are all the previously fully functional programs which have stopped > >functioning since this debacle that have so far come to my attention. > >Having audacity working would be a nice luxury, but now my first priority > >is getting firefox going again, since there are some web-based tasks I must > >perform on a regular basis which do not work properly in chromium browsers. > > > >Thanks in advance for any light you may shed upon me in my state of > >ignorance. > > > >Levi > > > > -- >
