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Hi - I was playing around with pulseaudio - not sure what I did, but have screwed it up such that it is now not working; I get no volume icon in the tray, and no sound at all. Could someone help please.
My system details are:
Fossapup64-9.6 (been using for many months and has worked perfectly till just now when I screwed it up)
DELL E6420 laptop

I've attached a couple of pics showing the errors I am now seeing.

I'd appreciate any help to resolve 'cause I don't know where to start. Thanks

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also found this message in the /var/log/messages file

Oct 23 09:53:10 puppypc5746 user.err pulseaudio[6842]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/home/spot/.config/pulse): Operation not permitted
Oct 23 09:53:10 puppypc5746 user.err pulseaudio[6839]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Either the configuration file is changed or missing and/or this is an ownership (permissions) problem.

Check to see if the directory /home/spot/.config/pulse exists or is being created. pulseaudio seems be having a conflict when starting backup.

Try killing all the pulseaudio daemons and restarting them manually to see if an error is displayed and to see what happens.

What happens if you do a complete power off shutdown, wait 1 minute, then do a power on boot up?

Did you add anything that had anything to do with pulseaudio?

@rockedge
Thanks rockedge ....I came to the same conclusion from the error message in the /var/log/messages file ...so I restored the /home/spot/.config/pulse directory from a recent backup.

Now working normally again. Thanks for the quick reply.

Moved to the FP96-CE sub-forum...

Mike.