pulseaudio not authenticated

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 February 2016 at 07:59, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is very strange.
> >
> > I have been using my HPG210 to watch videos thru a LG monitor via HDMI.
> > Last night I could not get any sound.  I went to Synaptic to reinstall
> pulse
> > and there it says that pulse audio is not authenticated!  I reinstalled
> and
> > now have no sound at all!
> >
> > 1:4.0 is the version number it gives in synaptic.
>
> Which version of Ubuntu and copy/paste the output from
> apt-cache policy pulseaudio
> please.
>
> Colin
>
> --


After I wrote that email I looked at pulseaudio in Software center.  Where
in Synaptic is was uninstalled in SC it was installed.  I tried removing
and reinstalling.  I could not reinstall.

Then I sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio

then

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

Now the sound is back. I had not sound indicator so

sudo apt-get install indicator-sound

and

killall unity-panel-service

The applet returned however when I click on it I only get system settings.

So problem is partially resolved.

thanks


garyk

  Installed: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1
  Candidate: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.0-0ubuntu11.1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:4.0-0ubuntu11 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
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