Subject: no sound?

From: Tony Baldwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:35:51 -0400

Suddenly I have no sound.
Dunno why. I did just two days ago, when I was happily listening to Opeth.

Pulseaudio is running:
ps aux | grep pulseaudio
tony      2340  0.5  0.0 370052  6788 ?        S<l  12:24   0:01 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
tony      2402  0.0  0.0   4324   104 ?        S    12:24   0:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
tony      3116  0.0  0.0  12720   964 pts/0    S+   12:28   0:00 grep 
pulseaudio

This is on Jessie,
Speakers are properly plugged in, etc.
I'm stumped.
./tony
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From: Anthony Baldwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 13:17:19 -0400

> Speakers are properly plugged in, etc.

I have verified that there is no hardware problem.
I plugged the speakers into a phone and they worked fine.
Also, this machine has a 2nd hdd with win7 and I booted that and sound 
worked fine, so there appears to be no problem with the sound card or 
the speakers.
Still stumped

./tony

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From: deloptes <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 00:24:25 +0200

> worked fine, so there appears to be no problem with the sound card or

I would check if pulseaudio has the proper input/output devices correctly
configured (and unmuted)
Also check in alsamixer if something relevant is muted.

This "Suddenly I have no sound" means what exactly: listening and it stopped
or you rebooted and it was not there anymore?

regards

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From: Anthony Baldwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 20:07:26 -0400

> I would check if pulseaudio has the proper input/output devices correctly
I couldn't figure out how to do this (no man page for pulseaudio-utils), 
but eventually found something in th lxmenu for Audio->Pulseaudio Volume 
Contol, and found that analog output was muted.
I Unmuted it and was startled by the glorious sound of YOB (doom metal), 
I had inadvertently left playing earlier in an instance of mocp I'd 
totally forgotten in a minimized terminal.

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From: Tony Baldwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 06:21:55 -0400

>> or you rebooted and it was not there anymore?

forgot to mark this resolved...done now
Tony
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