Hello, I am using 'Centos 7.8.2003 (Core)' and after an update, a week or two ago, all system sounds seemed to have stopped working. Sound in firefox still works, and also rhythmbox seems to play music files, VLC player do too. It seems that? just things like notifications etc are not woring anymore. Also, the "test speakers" in the sound setup doesn't seem to produce any sound. any ideas? thanks, Ron
been playing around a bit and noticed: When I login as root, gnome,? all the system sounds seem to be working. When I log in as a regelur user,? the system sounds do't.? So I guess it must be a permissions issue somewhere that happened during/after the last update? any ideas? thanks, Ron On 10/10/20 12:03 PM, R C wrote:> Hello, > > > I am using 'Centos 7.8.2003 (Core)' and after an update, a week or two > ago, all system sounds seemed to have stopped working. > > Sound in firefox still works, and also rhythmbox seems to play music > files, VLC player do too. > > > It seems that? just things like notifications etc are not woring > anymore. Also, the "test speakers" in the sound setup doesn't seem to > produce any sound. > > > any ideas? > > > thanks, > > > Ron >
On Oct 13, 2020, at 23:03, R C <cjvijf at gmail.com> wrote:> > ?been playing around a bit and noticed: > > > When I login as root, gnome, all the system sounds seem to be working. > > When I log in as a regelur user, the system sounds do't. So I guess it must be a permissions issue somewhere that happened during/after the last update?I didn?t know it was even possible to use GNOME as root. It certainly is a terrible idea. It?s possible that the regular user not being able to use sounds might be an artifact of running GNOME as root, some permissions somewhere broken or a configuration file removed. You need to take a look at the systemd journal to see what errors pulseaudio is getting when you log in as the user. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>