no sound, pulseaudio seems broken, dameon startup failed

Louis

8/29/24, 7:42 PM

can't find any solution to this problem in the other posts. I have no more sound on Ubuntu. I removed and reinstalled pulseaudio but I still have this:

$ pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

and

$ sudo pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory 
(/home/louisro/.config/pulse): Permission denied
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: Permission denied


$ ps -ef | grep pulse
louisro   8703  3418  0 21:45 pts/10   00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
$ pacmd list-cards
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
louisro@-ThinkPad-T400:~/.config$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Also reinstalling alsa and pulseaudio gives this and wrecks my system parameters and I have to run sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to restore them:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
$ sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio
$ sudo alsa force-reload
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-hda-codec-conexant snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-timer (failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-codec-conexant snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-timer).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-hda-codec-conexant snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-page-alloc snd-timer.

Can you help? Thanks

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