Issue starting pulseaudio

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#1

Hello everyone. im having some trouble getting pulseaudio to start after rebooting. This is on 64 bit 12.3.

When opening pavucontrol i get the message “connection to PulseAudio failed”

gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-hal-detect": file not found
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Fallo al intentar iniciar el demonio.


gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> start-pulseaudio-x11
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/gabriel/.config/pulse/cookie': No existe el fichero o el directorio
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/gabriel/.config/pulse/cookie': No existe el fichero o el directorio
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Falló el inicio del demonio. 

gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [SB             ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB
                      HDA ATI SB at 0xfe9f4000 irq 16
 1 [HDMI           ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI
                      HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfeafc000 irq 44

gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> /sbin/lsmod | grep -c snd
14

Any help is appreciated

#2

Hal is not included in openSUSE anymore, so also the pulseaudio “module-hal-detect” doesn’t exist.
You must have some old pulseaudio config file still lying around somewhere…

Please give the output of:

ls -l /etc/pulse

and

grep module-hal-detect /etc/pulse/*
#3 
gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> ls -l /etc/pulse
total 40
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1200 abr 29 11:44 client.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1269 oct 29  2011 client.conf.rpmnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2331 mar 13 06:37 daemon.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4779 ago 24  2011 default.pa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4770 ago 24  2011 default.pa~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5741 mar 13 06:37 default.pa.rpmnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2284 mar 13 06:37 system.pa

gabriel@linux-a7dy:~> grep module-hal-detect /etc/pulse/*
/etc/pulse/default.pa:### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect --
/etc/pulse/default.pa:load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
/etc/pulse/default.pa~:### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect --
/etc/pulse/default.pa~:load-module module-hal-detect
#4

As I suspected.
Please remove the files /etc/pulse/default.pa (or better move it to somewhere else for now) and /etc/pulse/default.pa~ and rename default.pa.rpmnew as default.pa
Hopefully pulseaudio will then start again!

#5

Worked!

Thanks !!