Hi all,
First of all please CC me if anybody responds. I did a bunch of
updates today (on amd 64 bit sid box) and suddenly audio has stopped
working (at least on vlc) . One of the biggies was/is the
initramfs-tools as well as the sysvinit package although dunno if that
changed anything (or not).
$ apt-show-versions -a sysvinit
sysvinit 2.88dsf-26 install ok installed
sysvinit 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1 stable ftp.debian.org
sysvinit 2.88dsf-22.1 testing ftp.debian.org
sysvinit 2.88dsf-25 experimental ftp.debian.org
sysvinit 2.88dsf-26 unstable ftp.debian.org
sysvinit/unstable uptodate 2.88dsf-26
$ apt-show-versions -a sysvinit-utils
sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-26 install ok installed
sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-13.1+squeeze1 stable ftp.debian.org
sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-22.1 testing ftp.debian.org
sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-25 experimental ftp.debian.org
sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-26 unstable ftp.debian.org
sysvinit-utils/unstable uptodate 2.88dsf-26
$ apt-show-versions -a initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools 0.105 install ok installed
initramfs-tools 0.98.8 stable
ftp.debian.org
initramfs-tools 0.103 testing
ftp.debian.org
initramfs-tools 0.105 unstable
ftp.debian.org
initramfs-tools/unstable uptodate 0.105
The error on the CLI was :-
[some memory address] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line
[some memory address] pulse audio output error: overflow, flushing
'pulse audio output error: overflow, flushing
Fiddling around with sound also produced nothing. It's not muted or anything.
the only rational answer I found was this blog post when searching for
my issue :-
http://charliemeyer.net/blog/2011/10/fix-for-sound-stop-working-randomly-on-ubuntu-11-04/
But trying the instructions on that blog post didn't do anything.
Also saw this ticket which was fixed in VLC last year
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5464
$ apt-show-versions -a vlc
vlc 1:2.0.1-dmo2 install ok installed
vlc 1.1.3-1squeeze6 stable ftp.debian.org
vlc 2.0.1-4+b2 testing ftp.debian.org
vlc 2.0.1-4+b2 unstable ftp.debian.org
vlc 1:2.0.1-dmo2 sid www.deb-multimedia.org
vlc/sid uptodate 1:2.0.1-dmo2
Pulseaudio is 2.0-3
$ apt-show-versions -a pulseaudio
pulseaudio 2.0-3 install ok installed
pulseaudio 0.9.21-3+squeeze1 stable ftp.debian.org
pulseaudio 2.0-3 testing ftp.debian.org
pulseaudio 2.0-3 unstable ftp.debian.org
pulseaudio/testing uptodate 2.0-3
Then I rebooted the box in the hopes that maybe it needed a reboot.
Now I don't get the pulseaudio error but still no audio.
This is the output on the CLI :-
VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
[some memory address] dbus interface: listening on dbus as:
org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.vlc
[some memory address] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default
interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[some memory address] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line
The memory addresses are not given for privacy reasons. If needed can
mail privately.
Please lemme know if there is something wrong somewhere.
I checked the speaker on another system (running MS-Windows
unfortunately) but the speakers work so it has to be something from
this.
I also purged alsa-base and reinstalled it (maybe some obsolete
configuration file) and restarted the system as well but still no go.
Looking forward to answers.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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