Opensuse 13.2 no audio today!

English Hardware
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Hi all,

Today my PC not play System sound. I’ve a laptop and I’m using an USB audio card.

The speaker works because if I go to the youtube site i can hear the audio of video.
When I try to put volume up/down with keyboard buttons it not work (yesterday this features works fine).

The strange thing is this when I go to Yast>Hardware>sound I can hear the sound test.

I’ve tried to re-install drivers but nothing is changed.

So I’ve switched the USB port of audio card, and the Yast>Hardware>sound say me that I’ve another sound card and when I try to install it, following the wizard, “the System say me that the kernel module snd-usb-audio for sound support could not be loaded. etc…”

What happen :O? What can I do?

Thanks in advance

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Such problems were mentioned today also on mailing list http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-04/msg00679.html but I’m not sure if it is same… It’s weird. For me, removing and reconfiguring sound card in YaST worked.

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https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/506884-No-sound-at-all-after-last-update?p=2706104#post2706104

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Thanks for your notification, I’ve just installed the fix, but nothing is changed…

What can I do?

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Have you rebooted after installing the fix? (Logout/Login should be sufficient, but still…)

What pulseaudio package do you have installed exactly?

rpm -qi pulseaudio
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Yes i’ve rebooted 2 time.

When I type the command that you have written, I receive the output message but the terminal become frezed…

It’s so strange…

Name        : pulseaudio
Version     : 5.0
Release     : 4.18.1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Tue 21 Apr 2015 02:17:39 PM CEST
Group       : System/Sound Daemons
Size        : 3365115
License     : GPL-2.0+ and LGPL-2.1+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Tue 21 Apr 2015 10:48:58 AM CEST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM  : pulseaudio-5.0-4.18.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 13 Apr 2015 02:49:52 PM CEST
Build Host  : cloud121
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor      : openSUSE
URL         : http://pulseaudio.org
Summary     : A Networked Sound Server
Description :
pulseaudio is a networked sound server for Linux, other Unix like
operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an
improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND).
Distribution: openSUSE 13.2
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Which one?
The rpm command in the other thread?
It shouldn’t “freeze”, but it installs the fixed update which will take a while.

It’s so strange…

Name        : pulseaudio
Version     : 5.0
Release     : 4.18.1

It’s not so strange. This is the buggy package you still have installed.

Run this to install the fixed update, this time with a progress bar, so that you don’t think the terminal froze:

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-test/x86_64/pulseaudio-5.0-4.21.1.x86_64.rpm
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Thanks m8 using “sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-test/x86_64/pulseaudio-5.0-4.21.1.x86_64.rpm” the issue is resolved!!

(the command “rpm -qi pulseaudio” has freezed the console)

Thanks again!!

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Hm. Then you seem to have bigger problems (probably unrelated to pulseaudio) than just not-working sound… :\

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The bug should be fixed by today’s update. Install and reboot.

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Actually the fixed update has been released yesterday already.
And andreacatania did write in his previous reply that the update solved his issue… :wink: (he installed it from the update-test repo, but that’s exactly the same package that got released as update)