Why does sound stop working after a while?
- by badp
I don't know how to reproduce this problem, because I don't regularly play music or sound. All I know is that, sometimes, I'll load a video (from youtube or from a local file) and there will be no sound.
Everything looks fine software wise:
Rebooting always fixes.
aplay, paplay and pals give no error message
I'm not in the audio group, as advised
The device exists and appears in use:
$ lsof /dev/snd/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1b.0
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
pulseaudi 17313 badp 23u CHR 116,10 0t0 7628 /dev/snd/by-path/../controlC0
pulseaudi 17313 badp 30u CHR 116,10 0t0 7628 /dev/snd/by-path/../controlC0
Restarting pulseaudio or alsa seems to do no good.
What is wrong here?