Bug#999757: pulseaudio: My system has no sound at all, an upgrade may have messed it up. I am on XFCE when I go to Volume Control (pulseaudioplugin) there is No Cards Available for configuration.

[Laszlo Bak]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 14.2-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: laszl...@yahoo.com

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

* What led up to the situation? May be an uppgrade, as I am not aware that I was installing, configurig anything related to pulse or alsa
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)? Ineffective: installed alsa-tools, alsa-firmware-loader, removed config file of pulse under ~/.config, created /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and added this line: options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0
* What was the outcome of this action? Still no sound
* What outcome did you expect instead? I expected that there is sound, and Volume Control gives me Configuration options

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-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1
ii libasound2-plugins 1.2.2-2
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
ii libcap2 1:2.44-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-2
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libltdl7 2.4.6-15
ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.32-1
ii libpulse0 14.2-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libsndfile1 1.0.31-2
ii libsoxr0 0.1.3-4
ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1.2-1.1
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libsystemd0 247.3-6
ii libtdb1 1.4.3-1+b1
ii libudev1 247.3-6
ii libwebrtc-audio-processing1 0.3-1+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii pulseaudio-utils 14.2-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii dbus-user-session 1.12.20-2
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 247.3-6
ii rtkit 0.13-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn paprefs <none>
ii pavucontrol 4.0-2
pn pavumeter <none>
ii udev 247.3-6

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[Maximiliano Estudies]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 16.1+dfsg1-2
Followup-For: Bug #999757
X-Debbugs-Cc: maxies...@gmail.com

After updating pulseaudio can't see any cards or sinks. pavucontrol won't list any card in the configuration tab,
and pactl show cards returns nothing. Weirdly pacmd list-cards and pacmd list-sinks do show the correct
information but the sink state is IDLE

-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:

Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:

ii adduser 3.129
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libasound2 1.2.7.2-1
ii libasound2-plugins 1.2.7.1-1
ii libc6 2.35-2
ii libcap2 1:2.44-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.14.4-1
ii libfftw3-single3 3.3.8-2
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-3
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.0-2
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.20.3-2
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.20.3-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libltdl7 2.4.7-4
ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.32-2
ii libpulse0 16.1+dfsg1-2
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libsndfile1 1.1.0-3
ii libsoxr0 0.1.3-4
ii libspeexdsp1 1.2.1-1
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-3
ii libsystemd0 251.5-1
ii libtdb1 1.4.7-1
ii libudev1 251.5-1
ii libwebrtc-audio-processing1 0.3-1+b1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-31
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.1-2
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.1-2
ii libxcb1 1.15-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1.1
ii lsb-base 11.4
ii pulseaudio-utils 16.1+dfsg1-2
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.05-6

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:

ii dbus-user-session 1.14.4-1
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 251.5-1

ii rtkit 0.13-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn paprefs <none>

ii pavucontrol 5.0-2
pn pavumeter <none>
ii udev 251.5-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/default.pa changed:
.fail
load-module module-device-restore
load-module module-stream-restore
load-module module-card-restore
load-module module-augment-properties
load-module module-switch-on-port-available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect
.else
load-module module-detect
.endif
.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
.nofail
load-module module-jackdbus-detect channels=2
.fail
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif
.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
.ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix
.endif
load-module module-native-protocol-unix
.ifexists module-gsettings.so
.nofail
load-module module-gsettings
.fail
.endif
load-module module-default-device-restore
load-module module-always-sink
load-module module-intended-roles
.ifexists module-console-kit.so
load-module module-console-kit
.endif
.ifexists module-systemd-login.so
load-module module-systemd-login
.endif
load-module module-position-event-sounds
load-module module-role-cork
load-module module-filter-heuristics
load-module module-filter-apply
.nofail
.include /etc/pulse/default.pa.d


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