No sound after suspend/hibernate

[whalogreg]

I recently did a fresh install of 9.10 on my Gateway MD7818 laptop. I've never had any issues with sound before on this laptop with linux or windows until now. When ever my laptop sits unused for a period of time, or goes into suspend OR hibernate, I lose sound after waking it up. Any idea where I can start with this?

[RedSingularity]

When the sound is down look at the System>Admin>system monitor and see if pulseaudio is running.

[whalogreg]

Yes, pulseaudio is running.. It is in "sleeping" status..

[RedSingularity]

Ok when you have no sound try this................

sudo killall pulseaudio && sudo pulseaudio && exit

[whalogreg]

This is my output..

greg@greg-laptop:~$ sudo killall pulseaudio && sudo pulseaudio && exit
[sudo] password for greg:
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
E: core-util.c: Home directory /home/greg not ours.

[RedSingularity]

Oh sorry try this.............

sudo killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio && exit

[whalogreg]

Output...

E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

[RedSingularity]

Ok try running them like this then............

1) sudo killall pulseaudio

then...............

2) pulseaudio & exit

[DanYoSon]

i am having the same problem and tryed the commands getting the same output as whalogreg.

something that i knoticed was when watching the prosess 'pulseaudio' in system monitor when running sudo killall pulseaudio it does not dissapear or change. even killing it in system monitor does not work. hope this helps.

[RedSingularity]

Try deleting the pulse folder in your home dir. When in the home directory press ctl+H to display hidden folders. Find the folder named .pulse and delete it. Then reboot.