No more sound . trouble with pulsaudio?

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#1

hi everybody
suddently i have no more sound. can’y see the sound card un system tray and the command
In Yast i see the card but no sound played

systemctl status pulseaudio.service
Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found.

? could you help me ?

#2

@Enthalpie:

:upside_down_face: The systemd pulseaudio service is a user service – not a system service …

 > systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service 
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-08-25 10:47:33 CEST; 8h ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 5665 (pulseaudio)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
             ├─ 5665 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
             └─ 6041 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

Aug 25 10:47:27 xxx systemd[5121]: Starting Sound Service...
Aug 25 10:47:33 xxx systemd[5121]: Started Sound Service.
 > 
 > rpm --query --whatprovides /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service
pulseaudio-15.0-150400.2.10.x86_64
 >

Please check the following with the following caveat – I’m using Leap 15.5:

 > systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -iE 'UNIT FILE |pulse|alsa|sound|audio|pipewire'
UNIT FILE                                                             STATE     VENDOR PRESET
pipewire-session-manager.service                                      alias     -
pipewire.service                                                      disabled  disabled
pulseaudio-x11.service                                                static    -
pulseaudio.service                                                    disabled  disabled
pipewire.socket                                                       enabled   enabled
pulseaudio.socket                                                     enabled   enabled
sound.target                                                          static    -
 >

For the case of Leap 15.4, you’ll have to follow the Leap 15.4 “VENDOR PRESET” values to set up correctly.

#3

Everyone:

Never, ever, forget, with systemd and User services, you always use the “–user” option with the “systemctl” command executed by the “normal” user who needs to manage the service being set up.

  • “sudo” or the user “root” are only needed to set up System services –
    The option “–user” is never, ever, used by the System services case …
#4

hello
yes i open without root rigths
I did’nt know i should ste user parameter
the command done :
systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-08-25 21:33:38 CEST; 3min 53s ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
Main PID: 2635 (pulseaudio)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pulseaudio.service
├─ 2635 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
└─ 2789 /usr/lib/pulse/gsettings-helper

so everything goink OK after reboot ??
I have install sof-firmware , i saw that in a forum , may be it was the package needed ?
regards

#5

Review the troubleshooting guide
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Audio_troubleshooting
Test your sound at the ALSA level first as described there. You can also run a diagnostic script that will produce useful output (uploaded to to an online server), allowing you to share a link to it here so that others may advise further.