I'm using Mint 20.1, and the sound stopped working. I have been playing around with the issue for some time, so it's possible that I added another layer of problems on top of the original one. The situation at the moment is the following:
pulseaudio produces
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
I'm already logged as main user on pulseaudio, so i don't have accessibility controll trouble (that i've looked for). Btw pavucontrol works as well
The output of pulseaudio -vvvvv is as following:
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not allowed
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
D: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: RealtimeKit worked.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 13.99.1
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/pulseaudio-2mSVPl/pulseaudio-13.99.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -W -Wextra -pipe -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option -fdiagnostics-color=auto
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 5.4.0-77-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 17 02:35:03 UTC 2021
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 4 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running from build tree: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 572f66344d43424c6d316d796b6f7a42.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is c3.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1002/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/marcus_andrade/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib/pulse-13.99.1/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
I tried to remove and reinstall pulseaudio but with no success. Also, I verified that there's no pulseaudio file in:
~/.config/autostart/
There are no files in:
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/pulseaudio /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio-kde.desktop
There is a file in:
/etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
I would be grateful for any suggestions on what to check or how to fix this issue. Thanks!
