Is there another way to restart the sound system if pulseaudio/ALSA don't work?
I was listening to music, and my sound suddenly went dead in all my applications. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which uses pulseaudio, so I tried sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, but nothing happened. According to lsof | grep pcm, nothing is using the soundcard at the moment, although I'm not entirely sure if my source for that command is applicable.
Is there a way another way to restart Ubuntu 12.04's sound system from the command line without rebooting the system?
pulseaudio alsa
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I was listening to music, and my sound suddenly went dead in all my applications. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which uses pulseaudio, so I tried sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, but nothing happened. According to lsof | grep pcm, nothing is using the soundcard at the moment, although I'm not entirely sure if my source for that command is applicable.
Is there a way another way to restart Ubuntu 12.04's sound system from the command line without rebooting the system?
pulseaudio alsa
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18
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asked Dec 20 '12 at 5:08
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This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
– rickfoosusa
Aug 25 '14 at 23:58
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I was listening to music, and my sound suddenly went dead in all my applications. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which uses pulseaudio, so I tried sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, but nothing happened. According to lsof | grep pcm, nothing is using the soundcard at the moment, although I'm not entirely sure if my source for that command is applicable.
Is there a way another way to restart Ubuntu 12.04's sound system from the command line without rebooting the system?
pulseaudio alsa
edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18
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asked Dec 20 '12 at 5:08
Ricardo AltamiranoRicardo Altamirano
8792816
I was listening to music, and my sound suddenly went dead in all my applications. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which uses pulseaudio, so I tried sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart, but nothing happened. According to lsof | grep pcm, nothing is using the soundcard at the moment, although I'm not entirely sure if my source for that command is applicable.
Is there a way another way to restart Ubuntu 12.04's sound system from the command line without rebooting the system?
pulseaudio alsa
pulseaudio alsa
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asked Dec 20 '12 at 5:08
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This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
– rickfoosusa
Aug 25 '14 at 23:58
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This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
– rickfoosusa
Aug 25 '14 at 23:58
This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
– rickfoosusa
Aug 25 '14 at 23:58
This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
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I've used pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload a couple of times, and it worked well. The first part kills pulseaudio, the second reloads ALSA. You don't need to restart pulseaudio, because it auto-restarts.
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
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This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
pulseaudio -ksaved my life ! no sudo needed
– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
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What I do when my sound doesn't work is
killall pulseaudio
and then I press Alt + F2 and type in pulseaudio. It usually works for me.
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
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answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
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In my case there were nasty messages in kern.log / dmesg:
sound hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: invalid ELD buf size -1
The solution was simply to suspend and resume the machine!
$ sudo pm-suspend
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but thesudo pm-suspendtrick did it....
– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.pm-suspendfixed it.
– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
add a comment |
Have you looked inside the folder to see if pulseaudio was available in init.d, try replacing pulse audio with alsa-utils
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
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FINALLY! This worked for me, and has worked repeatedly: https://askubuntu.com/a/221922
"Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me"
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I've used pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload a couple of times, and it worked well. The first part kills pulseaudio, the second reloads ALSA. You don't need to restart pulseaudio, because it auto-restarts.
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
8
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
pulseaudio -ksaved my life ! no sudo needed
– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
|
show 9 more comments
I've used pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload a couple of times, and it worked well. The first part kills pulseaudio, the second reloads ALSA. You don't need to restart pulseaudio, because it auto-restarts.
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
8
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
pulseaudio -ksaved my life ! no sudo needed
– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
|
show 9 more comments
I've used pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload a couple of times, and it worked well. The first part kills pulseaudio, the second reloads ALSA. You don't need to restart pulseaudio, because it auto-restarts.
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
I've used pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload a couple of times, and it worked well. The first part kills pulseaudio, the second reloads ALSA. You don't need to restart pulseaudio, because it auto-restarts.
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:18
mikewhatevermikewhatever
23.6k76886
23.6k76886
8
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
pulseaudio -ksaved my life ! no sudo needed
– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
|
show 9 more comments
8
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
pulseaudio -ksaved my life ! no sudo needed
– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
8
8
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
This helped to me to fix the issue 'no sound after suspend' I have suffered from for don't remember how long.
– khustochka
Aug 31 '13 at 19:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
Ubuntu sometimes freezes for me and goes mental for about 10 minutes, after which it "wakes up" in a bit of a daze, including the sound not working. This fixed it!
– Matt Fletcher
Nov 28 '13 at 14:19
1
1
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
Sometimes you might need to clear pulse config with "rm -R ~/.pulse*" before issuing any restart.
– Radu Maris
Sep 23 '14 at 11:33
1
1
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
It works for me after my USB headphone stop to work.
– Felipe
Oct 20 '14 at 22:47
1
1
pulseaudio -k saved my life ! no sudo needed– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
pulseaudio -k saved my life ! no sudo needed– Aitch
Apr 10 '18 at 21:15
|
show 9 more comments
What I do when my sound doesn't work is
killall pulseaudio
and then I press Alt + F2 and type in pulseaudio. It usually works for me.
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
add a comment |
What I do when my sound doesn't work is
killall pulseaudio
and then I press Alt + F2 and type in pulseaudio. It usually works for me.
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
add a comment |
What I do when my sound doesn't work is
killall pulseaudio
and then I press Alt + F2 and type in pulseaudio. It usually works for me.
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
What I do when my sound doesn't work is
killall pulseaudio
and then I press Alt + F2 and type in pulseaudio. It usually works for me.
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
2,4451530
edited Jan 6 at 5:36
Pablo Bianchi
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2,4451530
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
answered Dec 20 '12 at 5:16
tofuratortofurator
724611
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724611
724611
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add a comment |
In my case there were nasty messages in kern.log / dmesg:
sound hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: invalid ELD buf size -1
The solution was simply to suspend and resume the machine!
$ sudo pm-suspend
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but thesudo pm-suspendtrick did it....
– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.pm-suspendfixed it.
– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
add a comment |
In my case there were nasty messages in kern.log / dmesg:
sound hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: invalid ELD buf size -1
The solution was simply to suspend and resume the machine!
$ sudo pm-suspend
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but thesudo pm-suspendtrick did it....
– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.pm-suspendfixed it.
– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
add a comment |
In my case there were nasty messages in kern.log / dmesg:
sound hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: invalid ELD buf size -1
The solution was simply to suspend and resume the machine!
$ sudo pm-suspend
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
In my case there were nasty messages in kern.log / dmesg:
sound hdaudioC0D2: HDMI: invalid ELD buf size -1
The solution was simply to suspend and resume the machine!
$ sudo pm-suspend
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
answered Dec 23 '15 at 17:51
joeytwiddlejoeytwiddle
9241021
9241021
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but thesudo pm-suspendtrick did it....
– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.pm-suspendfixed it.
– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
add a comment |
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but thesudo pm-suspendtrick did it....
– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.pm-suspendfixed it.
– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
1
1
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but the
sudo pm-suspend trick did it....– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
i don't know what was going on, I also had a mike problem, reinstalled pulseaudio and alsa packages, but the
sudo pm-suspend trick did it....– vlad-ardelean
Aug 11 '16 at 10:33
1
1
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Battery died on my Dell, did all the above, tried this as a last resort and it worked! Thanks!
– iLikeBreakfast
Jan 9 '17 at 5:33
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.
pm-suspend fixed it.– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
Same thing happened here - after battery died, headphones did not work after next boot.
pm-suspend fixed it.– axel22
Aug 24 '17 at 16:29
add a comment |
Have you looked inside the folder to see if pulseaudio was available in init.d, try replacing pulse audio with alsa-utils
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
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Have you looked inside the folder to see if pulseaudio was available in init.d, try replacing pulse audio with alsa-utils
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
4431616
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Have you looked inside the folder to see if pulseaudio was available in init.d, try replacing pulse audio with alsa-utils
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
4431616
Have you looked inside the folder to see if pulseaudio was available in init.d, try replacing pulse audio with alsa-utils
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
4431616
edited Jul 29 '18 at 10:00
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
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answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
4431616
answered May 14 '17 at 7:24
hello motohello moto
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FINALLY! This worked for me, and has worked repeatedly: https://askubuntu.com/a/221922
"Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me"
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24
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answered May 30 '15 at 6:30
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FINALLY! This worked for me, and has worked repeatedly: https://askubuntu.com/a/221922
"Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me"
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24
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answered May 30 '15 at 6:30
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FINALLY! This worked for me, and has worked repeatedly: https://askubuntu.com/a/221922
"Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me"
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24
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answered May 30 '15 at 6:30
user3171081user3171081
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FINALLY! This worked for me, and has worked repeatedly: https://askubuntu.com/a/221922
"Go in to the Preferences and switch the Output Module to ALSA audio output. Quit VLC & relaunch. It worked ok to me"
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24
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This answer worked for me. askubuntu.com/questions/15223/…
– rickfoosusa
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