My sounds suddenly stopped playing on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. I can only see Dummy output device in the Sound Settings and no sound is played during testing.
I can get the sound temporarily working by killing one of the strange processes, but I have to repeat the same after reboot
jan@jan-HP-Desktop:~$ ps -ef|grep pulseaudio
112 1405 1 0 09:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
112 2132 1405 0 09:38 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
jan 2575 1 0 09:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
jan 2597 2575 0 09:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
jan 3160 2975 0 09:40 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulseaudio
jan@jan-HP-Desktop:~$ sudo kill 1405
Is there a permanent solution for this problem?
mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.old
? Then restart pulseaudio withpulseaudio -k
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