[Cialug] Tracking down an audio problem

[Andrew Denner]

You could check syslog to see if pulseaudio has logged any errors that may
be informative.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:57 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've had similar issues, it's usually an issue with pulseaudio, for
> starters try "service pulseaudio restart". It can also be corrupt pulse
> config files.
>
> Linux and audio have always been interesting... between alsa and pulse and
> whatever, have never seen one that's really bulletproof.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:20 PM, c <cbpurcell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04, I have a recurring problem that occurs across
> my
> > 3 main machines.
> >
> > After video and/or audio have been playing for a period of time (it could
> > be 1 hour, it might be 15 hours split over several days) Suddenly I get
> no
> > sound output.
> > - sound settings do not show anything is muted.
> > - Occurs whether I am trying to stream media via a browser, or just play
> a
> > flac or mp3 in vlc.
> > - As soon as I reboot the system, sound returns.
> >
> > I don't know where to start tracking this down, can anyone suggest things
> > to check or a strategy to follow in figuring this out?
> >
> > Machines:
> > - Desktop running ubuntu 16.04
> > - NUC running ubuntu mate 16.04 (primarily used to stream video and
> music)
> > - Work VMs running ubuntu 14.04 and 06.04
> >
> > *Machines all have 16+GB of RAM and 240GB+ SSDs
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Purcell
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