On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:24:13 -0800 Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
On 01/24/2013 05:57 PM, Ranjan Maitra issued this missive:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:41:57 -0800 Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
On 01/24/2013 05:32 PM, Ranjan Maitra issued this missive:
Hello,
I did an upgrade using:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_17_-.3E_Fedo...
and it was generally smooth and successful, which generally made me ecstatic, until the two issues (from what I can tell up to now) came up:
- Sound is gone. I have looked around all over, but am
unable to figure out what the problem is.
Have you checked to see if the pulseaudio daemon is running? It's possible your desktop environment isn't starting it as part of the session startup.
I don't quite know how to check this, (sorry!) but when I do this:
$ pulseaudio E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
which tells me it is running, right?
Yes, it's running. Ok.
Anything else I should check?
Check your volume controls and see if you have them muted. I'm not sure which desktop you're running, but with XFCE, I can left-click the speaker icon in the upper right to bring up the mixer.
I am using LXDE, and the speakers are not muted.
Also useful, install pavucontrol, run it and check what it says. If you install it, it'll be under
I tried pavucontrol, but did not get any messages. Do you need any specific information from this to help?
Many thanks again! Ranjan