[SOLVED] No sound upon booting up today

I booted into Arch this morning and I noticed that none of my applications were giving off any sound despite the fact that the master control in alsamixer was unmuted and at 100%. My PC is running a dual-boot system of Arch and Windows 7. I'm running kmix with pulseaudio.
I tinkered with all kinds of solutions on the forum, such as commenting Jack and Bluetooth items in /etc/pulse/default.pa. I also uninstalled pulseaudio, deleted the files in /etc/pulse/ and ~/.config/pulse/, and then reinstalled it with no success.
Here are some outputs:
$ lspci | grep Audio
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:05.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series]
$ ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 10 14:03 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Aug 10 14:03 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Aug 10 14:03 controlC1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Aug 10 14:03 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Aug 10 14:03 hwC1D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Aug 10 14:53 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Aug 10 15:20 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Aug 10 14:43 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Aug 10 14:03 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Aug 10 14:43 pcmC1D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 1 Aug 10 14:03 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Aug 10 14:03 timer
$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888-VD Analog [ALC888-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888-VD Digital [ALC888-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
$ amixer
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC888-VD Analog [ALC888-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC888-VD Digital [ALC888-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
[conor@ConorArch ~]$ amixer
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Capabilities: pvolume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 255
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Front',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Front Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Side',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 64
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-64.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Line Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [off]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 46
Front Left: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Capture 46 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Capture 0 - 46
Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [-16.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'Disabled' 'Enabled'
Item0: 'Disabled'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Capabilities: cenum
Items: 'Front Mic' 'Rear Mic' 'Line'
Item0: 'Front Mic'
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 31
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [off]
Simple mixer control 'Rear Mic Boost',0
Capabilities: volume
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: 0 - 3
Front Left: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
Front Right: 0 [0%] [0.00dB]
$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
cat: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf: No such file or directory
$ cat /etc/group | grep audio
audio:x:92:
I would be very appreciative if someone could point me in the right direction.
Last edited by contheman (2014-08-10 22:24:10)

$ systemctl is-enabled alsa-restore.service
static
$ systemctl status alsa-restore.service
● alsa-restore.service - Restore Sound Card State
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2014-08-10 16:04:49 UTC; 1h 6min ago
Process: 225 ExecStart=/usr/bin/alsactl restore (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 225 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
I still use Windows for steam, its overpriced office tools, and a few other things. I actually like the convenience of having two operating systems and don't see myself ever wiping my Windows 7 partitions. There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with Windows; Arch is just a more open and community supported OS.

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Most of the time when I boot into Arch Linux, my wireless connection starts automatically via netctl. I can open up Chromium and browse straight away.
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Apr 15 18:31:02 kevin-pc network[297]: Starting network profile 'wlp4s0-ZyXEL7850rtg'...
Apr 15 18:31:15 kevin-pc dhcpcd[487]: timed out
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Apr 15 18:31:15 kevin-pc systemd[1]: netctl@wlp4s0\x2dZyXEL7850rtg.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
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madeye wrote:nolapic_timer
Cool, will check this out as soon as possible. It will be the next saturday if my dad is willing to try the move of Ubuntu -> Arch again .
Last edited by algorythm (2010-02-21 13:36:08)

UPON boot up my computor always goes into a "checking file system on C"

UPON boot up my computor always goes into a "checking file system on C". It seems have started since last "Tuesday since the large update.

This is the second part of my message that should stop the checking file system.
Click Start, click All Programs, and then click Accessories.
Right-click Command prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
At the window that opens type the following commands, pressing "Enter" after each one, please, note the spaces.
chkntfs /d
chkntfs /c C:
chkntfs /x C:
Reboot the computer, it should go directly into Windows without checking the system.
Please confirm if it starts normally and I need to know if the drive is "Dirty" or not.
Please mark my post as SOLVED if it has resolved your problem. It helps others with similar situations.

How do I get out of kernel panic? kernel panic upon boot. I did that hard drive cleanup and reinstalled Lion. What about memory? Anyone think I need to upgrade my memory? I have 8gig.

I get kernel paic upon boot. I did that hard drive cleanup and reinstalled Lion. What about memory? Anyone think I need to upgrade my memory? I have 8 G of upgraded RAM. (20 inch iMac core 2 duo)

If you're able to boot, launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select the most recent panic log under System Diagnostic Reports. Post the contents — the text, please, not a screenshot. For privacy’s sake, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header and body of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don't post "shutdownStall" or "hang" reports.
If you can't boot in the usual way, try a safe boot. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
During startup, you’ll see a progress bar, and then the login screen, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all.
Note: If FileVault is enabled under Mac OS X 10.7 or later, you can’t boot in safe mode.

MBP Display flickers upon boot-up

Hi guys,
My macbook pro (mid 2012) has started flickering badly upon boot-up. The display also jiggles up and down on occassion when loading web pages. I have upgraded to Mavericks and my MBP is usually hooked up to a large monitor. Problem just started happening.
Any advice or input??
Thanks!

Does the flickering happen when connected to the external monitor, too? If so, you may have a GPU problem. If not, if it only happens on the built-in display, it could be a problem with the screen or the connector.
In any event, were I you, I would take the machine to your local Apple Store or an AASP and have them give you a free diagnosis and estimate for repair. If it is a problem with the GPU you'll need to have the logic board replaced, which can be quite costly if you don't have AppleCare.
Good luck,
Clinton

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I powered down my iMac for one day. Upon booting up, my mouse and keyboard do not communicate with the screen. How do I fix this?

Hello:
Sorry, it is short for system management controller.
You reset it like this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
That sometimes fixes odd problems. It cannot hurt anything to reset the SMC.
Barry

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