Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? > > I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual > operation > still works correctly: > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > Playing Sparc Audio '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, > Mono > > I hear the bark.
What is it using to play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something else? I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, and after that PA has disabled OSS. After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? -dsr-
