Qubes 3.1, Debian Stretch VM: audio not working

[RSS]

Everything should be update, with Qubes stretch "testing" sources turned
on.

This has been broken for a while, is it a known problem? If I try to
start it manually with debug turned on, there seems to be zero useful
information:

$ pulseaudio --start --log-level=debug -n
--file=/etc/pulse/qubes-default.pa

D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file
'/etc/pulse/client.conf'

D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: /etc/pulse/client.conf.d does not exist,
ignoring.

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

[Andrew David Wong]

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Yes, this is being tracked here:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1927

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[RSS]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:37:59 -0700
Andrew David Wong <a...@qubes-os.org> wrote:

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> On 2016-08-10 04:32, RSS wrote:
> > Everything should be update, with Qubes stretch "testing" sources
> > turned on.
> >
> > This has been broken for a while, is it a known problem? If I try
> > to start it manually with debug turned on, there seems to be zero
> > useful information:
> >
> > $ pulseaudio --start --log-level=debug -n
> > --file=/etc/pulse/qubes-default.pa
> >
> > D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file
> > '/etc/pulse/client.conf'
> >
> > D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: /etc/pulse/client.conf.d does not
> > exist, ignoring.
> >
> > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
> >
>
> Yes, this is being tracked here:
>
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1927

Cool, and the workaround mentioned there

sudo ln
-s /usr/lib/pulse-8.0/modules/module-vchan-sink.so
/usr/lib/pulse-9.0/modules/module-vchan-sink.so

still works like a charm.

Thanks!

[Pablo Di Noto]

With recent release of Pulseaudio version 10.0, the module is back the wrong directory. The same workaround works. See https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1927#issuecomment-277451087

Cheers,
///Pablo