Problem reinstalling puleaudio

[snowweb]

A while back, my audio on my 3 year old, Advent 9115 laptop, running Ubuntu 101.10 stopped working.

In an attempt to fix it, I ran:

ubuntu-bug audio

from (sorry, I'm not permitted to tell you the URL until I've made 15 posts or more!), but it tells me that PulseAudio has crashed and asks if I want to report it, to which I responded, "Yes". It then informed me that the package was not genuine and could not be reported!

I tried reinstalling PulseAudio and noticed that in doing so, it seemed to be using some unstable sources. I don't think I would have authorized those knowingly. I deselected the offending sources, then ran:

apt-get remove --auto-remove pulseaudio
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get install --auto-remove pulseaudio

To the last command, I received the following error:

root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install --auto-remove pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Can someone point me in the correct direction please?

Thanks.

PS. The above message could not be posted earlier because I didn't have permission to post URLs etc, until I had reached 15 posts. Does anyone see any such offending items in this message? If not, then there is a problem with the forum software.

[jayd512]

Your error mentions unmet dependencies. While these should have been handled automatically, have you tried installing them separately?

[snowweb]

No haven't tried that. I don't know where to start to be honest.

[jayd512]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I noted the dependencies in red.
Try to apt-get install each of those, one by one. Starting with the first one.


I'm not positive that this will fix it, but it's a place to start

[snowweb]

Thanks Jay. I tried that. Here's the output..

root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install libpulse0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libpulse0 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install pulseaudio-module-x11
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio-module-x11 : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
                         Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install pulseaudio-esound-compat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio-esound-compat : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
                            Depends: pulseaudio but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~#

[jayd512]

Try this one:

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends pulseaudio

The first command should get rid of everything related to pulseaudio on your system (more in-depth than --auto-remove)
The second command should install those pesky recommended packages that are popping up in your error messages.

[snowweb]

Thanks again...

root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get purge pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  pulseaudio*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 339712 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing pulseaudio ...
Purging configuration files for pulseaudio ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install --install-recommends pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu21.1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
              Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11 but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[jayd512]

I came across something on the web.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Then try to install pulseaudio.

[snowweb]

After adding the ppa and running update, I got a message about duplicate ppa's. It suggested that I run apt-get update again, so I did and that time got no error.

I then reinstalled pulseaudio as below:

root@peter-accent-ubuntu:~# apt-get install pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio : Depends: libpulse0 (= 1:0.9.22-0ubuntu1) but 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu1~10.10~ricotz1 is to be installed
              Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11 but it is not going to be installed
              Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

This is weird since apt-get clearly knows which version of libpulse0 is required, but is telling us that despite knowing this, the wrong version "is to be installed"!

What I think we need to know is why the wrong version "is to be installed", where that information is coming from and what is actually calling the shots regarding this. Once we know that, maybe we can correct it?

Don't let my thoughts derail the process though... I'm just a newbie!

Thanks.

[jayd512]

I'm running out of ideas here, but I agree with you about "wrong version" errors.

But, from the Ubuntu wiki:

Type the following:

sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter

This will install the ALSA Pulse plugin, the PulseAudio daemons and the PulseAudio tools.