If you logout from your desktop session & relogin (e.g. LXDE) pulseaudio is not running anymore, so volumecontrol is missing. You can also try to start "pactl" but it will state, no connection available. It gets available again after starting "pulseaudio" Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
@ M K please test whether this bug is valid in text mode, too, like a similar (now fixed) cauldron bug was See Jani's comments in bug 16345 16345#7: > I can reproduce this even without X: > > 1. Boot to text mode > 2. Login as normal user > 3. mplayer foo.mp3 > 4. Logout + re-login with same user > 5. mplayer foo.mp3 and no sound. > > After killing all leftover processes from previous session shown by > 'loginctl session-status $ID' [1] (at least gpg-agent for me) and logging > out + re-login, sound is working again. > > [1] You can get $ID with 'loginctl' cmd.
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOCC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => mageiaSummary: pulseaudio killed on X11 logout & restarted on login => pulseaudio killed on X11 logout & not restarted on loginSource RPM: pulseaudio-5.0-6.mga5.x86_64 => systemd-217-11.mga5 pulseaudio-5.0-6.mga5.x86_64
if I boot to text mode I don't get any audio ever. Sorry for asking, but what happens to start pulseaudio on text mode for you? In X the startup process should start pulseaudio. On logout X is shutdown, so pulseaudio gets killed, but is not restarted on logon.
Is this bug still valid?
I'll close my bug. I haven't had this issue for some time.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => OLD