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Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
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My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.



I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;



E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.


pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.



I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.



For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.



Edit for clarity as of 4/20/19: I'd forgotten about this question, but I would like to point out some information I had missed that should be noted. Restarting the computer does in fact fix the problem. It only happens occasionally when the Facebook Messenger call applet window is open on Firefox. Every once in a while, you will get a split second of audio from whatever was playing in the background when it happened.










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    My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.



    I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;



    E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
    E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.


    pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.



    I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.



    For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.



    Edit for clarity as of 4/20/19: I'd forgotten about this question, but I would like to point out some information I had missed that should be noted. Restarting the computer does in fact fix the problem. It only happens occasionally when the Facebook Messenger call applet window is open on Firefox. Every once in a while, you will get a split second of audio from whatever was playing in the background when it happened.










    share|improve this question

















    This question has an open bounty worth +50
    reputation from EarthToAccess ending in 7 days.


    This question has not received enough attention.


    Preferably, there should be a permanent fix to this issue if that is a possibility. While I'll accept temporary workarounds and/or fixes, I want to stop encountering the problem entirely.



















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      My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.



      I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;



      E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
      E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.


      pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.



      I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.



      For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.



      Edit for clarity as of 4/20/19: I'd forgotten about this question, but I would like to point out some information I had missed that should be noted. Restarting the computer does in fact fix the problem. It only happens occasionally when the Facebook Messenger call applet window is open on Firefox. Every once in a while, you will get a split second of audio from whatever was playing in the background when it happened.










      share|improve this question
















      My Ubuntu 18.04 PC has decided that pulseaudio is nothing good in the world, and therefore pulseaudio suddenly will stop seeing literally any audio devices-- quite literally, too, as aplay -l isn't returning with anything nice to say.



      I've found that I keep getting that dreaded E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. error, which spells no good news. pulseaudio -v, however, doesn't report the inotify issue, but instead pushes;



      E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
      E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.


      pulseaudio -D reported with the startup error, and running pulseaudio -k and --start consecutively do not work either.



      I attempted to restart alsa with sudo alsa force-reload, though that did not help. Running pacmd responded with Daemon not responding, and not much else. rm -r ~/.config/pulse; pulseaudio -k didn't help, either.



      For a tl;dr, pulseaudio isn't loading my sound devices and no fixes I've seen are working.



      Edit for clarity as of 4/20/19: I'd forgotten about this question, but I would like to point out some information I had missed that should be noted. Restarting the computer does in fact fix the problem. It only happens occasionally when the Facebook Messenger call applet window is open on Firefox. Every once in a while, you will get a split second of audio from whatever was playing in the background when it happened.







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      Preferably, there should be a permanent fix to this issue if that is a possibility. While I'll accept temporary workarounds and/or fixes, I want to stop encountering the problem entirely.








      This question has an open bounty worth +50
      reputation from EarthToAccess ending in 7 days.


      This question has not received enough attention.


      Preferably, there should be a permanent fix to this issue if that is a possibility. While I'll accept temporary workarounds and/or fixes, I want to stop encountering the problem entirely.
























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