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Ok, back when I had 12, I was using Pulseaudio equalizer, and it worked great. but now the I have 13.04, It doesn't work, and there are no options under "play sound through", where it used to say speakers, or headphones, when I had them plugged in. I assume this means I need to re-enable pulseaudio. how do I do so? I've tried Reinstalling, and that has proven ineffective. (PS: it works fine in the guest account. it's just in this user that it's not working for some reason.)

More: When I type "Pulseaudio" in a terminal I get: E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

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  • tried sudo apt-get install --reinstall pulseaudio ?
    – Alvar
    Sep 21, 2013 at 19:13
  • Tried that, no dice. anything else I should try? maybe a code to run it? I'm just learning this stuff, so I apologize if I'm asking stupid questions.
    – Luke G.
    Sep 21, 2013 at 21:23

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If you say it works fine as guest, just run rm -rf ~/.pulse from your terminal. That would wipe your pulseaudio settings as the currently logged in user.

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  • So just type that into my terminal?
    – Luke G.
    Sep 21, 2013 at 22:46
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    Never type/paste anything into your terminal from the internet if you don't fully understand what you are doing!
    – Agoston Horvath
    Sep 21, 2013 at 22:51
  • ...right. that's probably what happened in the first place. so then what does that do?
    – Luke G.
    Sep 21, 2013 at 22:58
  • Intriguing question. If there was a simple solution for this, we'd all be using linux by now. :) A good approach is that you focus on 2 things: a, your computer is not compromised (security-wise), b, you can recover from the operation. Since the above is a simple rm, all you have to do is make a backup of the directory that you would remove and then just go on; you can always roll it back.
    – Agoston Horvath
    Sep 21, 2013 at 23:04
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    Well I fixed it. I uninstalled it, and left it uninstalled for a while, then reinstalled it, and now it works. why reinstalling it the first 3 times didn't fix it, idk. but this time the little toolbar icon is gone, on all users. but sound works on all users.
    – Luke G.
    Sep 21, 2013 at 23:13

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