Re: [arch-general] no sound coming from speakers after update

10 Oct 2011


      On Monday, October 10, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote:
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On Monday, October 10, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote:
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Madhurya Kakati
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On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Martti Kühne wrote:
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On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Madhurya Kakati
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> The last entry in mpd.log is from 02 oct. I doubt that will help.
However
> when I try to start mpd I get this error, [papul@archlinux ~]$
> sudo rc.d start mpd
> :: Starting Music Player Daemon
> [BUSY] /etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 9910 Aborted
/usr/bin/mpd
> /etc/mpd.conf &>/dev/null
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Usually I put in hashes ('#') into the /etc/rc.d/mpd script to
check what output there is destroyed. Could be useful.
cheers!
mar77i
After adding '#' in /etc/rc.d/mpd here's what I get when I try to
start
it,
[papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo rc.d start mpd
:: Starting Music Player Daemon
[BUSY] listen: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in
use (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded)
output: No "audio_output" defined in config file
output: Attempt to detect audio output device
output: Attempting to detect a alsa audio device ALSA lib
pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
Connection refused
alsa: Error opening default ALSA device: Connection refused
output: Attempting to detect a oss audio device
oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory
oss: Error opening OSS device "/dev/sound/dsp": No such file or
directory
output: Attempting to detect a pulse audio device
mpd: src/output/pulse_output_plugin.c:400:
2011/10/10 Roman V.Leon. javascript:;>:
pulse_output_wait_connection:
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Assertion `po->mainloop != ((void *)0)' failed.
/etc/rc.d/mpd: line 6: 27833 Aborted /usr/bin/mpd
/etc/mpd.conf
[FAIL]
wow that fails for several reasons. you should:
1. configure alsa in mpd.conf, then mpd will be mixed over dmix (which
won't fix the actual problem) 2. make sure the user which runs mpd to
the audio group and figure out why both alsa and pulse would refuse
the connection.
who (uid/gid) runs those, what other security mechanisms could stick
in between, like a too restrictively configured firewall etc.
oh and you should figure out if mpd is already running, or if this
config option is plain wrong that makes mpd try to "bind to
'0.0.0.0:6600' failed: Address already in use" ... sometimes mpd hangs
up and you have to kill it with SIGABRT / 6.
I'm just at a very similar issue a friend of mine is having with mpd
and jack. you should get those permissions right in the first place...
:) I'll go there and adjust /etc/group until it works, I guess.
cheers!
mar77i
Forget about mpd. Why doesn't audio play on vlc and in browsers? I
regularly visit sites like grooveshark,com. Also I do have my username
in audio group.
Everything was fine until I ran pacman -Syu. :(
Hello Martti.
Please show 'ls -l /dev/snd/' output and try to launch alsamixer(under
root and unprivileged user) copy all error messages. Be sure that you
have
alsa-utils installed and alsa daemon is running.
Cheers,
Roman.
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Рhey Roman,
I was trying to help here, funny enough running into the exact same
problem today. :D
however the original question was asked by madhurya kataki.
I have a lot of root:audio files in there.
cheers
mar77i
So I uninstalled gdm and pulseaudio and am now using xdm with archlinux
theme, which frankly, I don't like. Still hoping someone would tell me how
to use gdm and not let pulseaudio takeover alsa.