Noticed yesterday that my sound was gone. Running up to date Solus KDE Plasma 5.20.4 on Acer Swift SF315-52 V1.07 with kernel 5.10.1-162.current.
In my notification area there's a red mark over my sound. Pressing mute, raise or lower volume on keyboard does nothing. When going into sound settings it says No output or input devices found.
Running pulseaudio -vvv gives:
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted
D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.
I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to acquire high-priority scheduling: No such file or directory
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 14.0-rebootstrapped
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation host: x86_64-solus-linux-gnu
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -mtune=generic -march=x86-64 -g2 -pipe -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=32 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -ftree-vectorize -feliminate-unused-debug-types -Wall -Wno-error -Wp,-D_REENTRANT -Os -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option -fdiagnostics-color=auto
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 5.10.1-162.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 16 10:10:41 UTC 2020
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 8 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running from build tree: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 3d6bda66d6cd431eb454e7d1aba0b612.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using state directory /home/bubble/.config/pulse.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using modules directory /usr/lib64/pulse-14.0/modules.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode: no
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
I've tried:
rm ~/.config/pulse/* && reboot- I've also tried
systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket && systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service. Then ps x | grep pulseaudio and then killall pulseaudio. It already starts before I get the time to run pulseaudio, and it says once again there are no input or output devices.
I have not had issues with pulseaudio before. This is not a computer I tinker with*. I have some small recollection there was a pulseaudio update recently, on Friday there was a bigger update for many packages at least, but looking into the forum I see no other posts regarding this.
What would be a good next step?
*only bigger modifications I've done to my system is removing snapd and adding a modified conf for intel as mentioned here (to fix screenflickering), none of which should interfere with pulseaudio.
