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I was having problems with sound (mono only output), so following advice from another askubuntu question I made some edits in /etc/pulse/default.pa

After rebooting I had no sound at all. So I deleted /etc/pulse/default.pa entirely and tried another reboot. I did not backup the file (stupid, I know).

How to come back to working config?

edit:

I tried:

sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio
(reboot)
 sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
(reboot)

It's still not working. The file /etc/pulse/default.pa is missing.

Here's what pulseaudio and pacmd commands show:

$ pulseaudio 
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing to work.
$ pacmd
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
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Can you add a link to the instructions that you followed? – maggotbrain Dec 5 '12 at 6:36
@maggotbrain done. – Vlad K. Dec 5 '12 at 15:43
This did not resolved my problem. I have default.pa file but still same problem. – YumYumYum May 15 at 12:21

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Here's my default.pa file. Try putting it the original folder, making sure it has the right permissions.

Next time backup important files before you modify or delete them, but I guess you learned that lesson already.

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I used the file kindly provided by @To Do. It worked - I can see devices now in "System settings/ sound". I also had to 'sudo apt-get install indicator-sound' to have sound icon on menu bar back (it disappeared after removing pulseaudio and did not reappear after reinstall). – Vlad K. Dec 5 '12 at 11:06

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