No sound, how to start pulseaudio on startup ?

**kvadrat** · 2016-04-23

Hey,

After updating to the rolling distribution there is no sound.

I can get sound if I run pulseaudio in terminal.

How can you start it automatically on startup ?

**deanMKD1** · 2016-04-24

1. Turn on Kali Linux, open terminal and type in sudo killall pulseaudio and hit enter. Now type next.

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol

and again hit enter.
2. Continue typing and now type rm ~/ .pulse-cookie , after that type rm -r ~/ .pulse and after this type next.

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

and at last type apt-get install kmix and hit enter.
3. And now restart machine.
4. OK now again open terminal and start typing on terminal and type next apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.
5. Restart machine.
Now you can see the result, all works great, problem solved

**movax01** · 2016-04-28

Hello all,

I have same problem as kvadrat and I had followed the steps given by deanMKD1 (thank you!)

However I got this problem in the last step:

apt-get install gnome-core

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-core : Depends: firefox-esr (>= 30) but it is not going to be installed or
firefox (>= 30)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

When I do apt-get -f install I got the following error:

root@msi:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
firefox-esr
Suggested packages:
fonts-stix | otf-stix mozplugger libgnomeui-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
firefox-esr
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/41.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 93.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 408830 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firefox-esr_45.0.2esr-1_amd64.deb ...
dpkg-divert: error: 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.real by firefox-esr' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/firefox.ubuntu by firefox-mozilla-build'
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-esr_45.0.2esr-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/firefox-esr_45.0.2esr-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I cannot install firefox-esr and it seems I need to do so. Conclusion is that I still have to run pulseaudio from command line everytime I need sound.

Help or any suggestion would be much apreciated

Thanks in advance

**deanMKD1** · 2016-05-02

Paste this is Terminal:

Code:

apt-get install alsa-utils -y

reboot, and coustomize Pulse Audio to your preferences. Now PulseAudio will start with every start on Kali.

**kvadrat** · 2016-05-03

Hey,

Did this

Originally Posted by deanMKD1

1. Turn on Kali Linux, open terminal and type in sudo killall pulseaudio and hit enter. Now type next.

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol

and again hit enter.
2. Continue typing and now type rm ~/ .pulse-cookie , after that type rm -r ~/ .pulse and after this type next.

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

and at last type apt-get install kmix and hit enter.
3. And now restart machine.
4. OK now again open terminal and start typing on terminal and type next apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.
5. Restart machine.
Now you can see the result, all works great, problem solved

Now sound seems to be working (thanks),
but it deleted my settings like keyboard shortcuts and the only file I had on my desktop and in my Home folder (10/10, would do again),
it might have been step 2 that did that.

**kali linux** · 2016-06-09

didn't the the @deanMKD1's solution as purging pulseaudio was deleting desktop and other packages as well.
Instead, i did a little hack to bypass this problem, i just added a small snippet to my .bashrc file as terminal is the first thing i usually open after the boot.
You can just add:

Code:

pulseaudio -D

at the end of .bashrc, and it should work. I just went slightly overboard and did this, works fine:

Code:

#Pulseaudio with terminal startup
until [[ `ps aux | grep "pulseaudio -D" | grep -v grep | wc -l` -eq 1 ]]
do
	pulseaudio -D >/dev/null 2>&1
	if [[ `ps aux | grep "pulseaudio -D" | grep -v grep | wc -l` -gt 1 ]]
	then
		kill -9 `pidof pulseaudio`
		pulseaudio -D
	fi
done

**null** · 2016-09-14

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

**gtfovinny** · 2016-09-15

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal: curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu.../pulseaudio.sh | bash
Have fun and Best Regards

Thanks for this solution!!

Originally Posted by deanMKD1

1. Turn on Kali Linux, open terminal and type in sudo killall pulseaudio and hit enter. Now type next.

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol

and again hit enter.
2. Continue typing and now type rm ~/ .pulse-cookie , after that type rm -r ~/ .pulse and after this type next.

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

and at last type apt-get install kmix and hit enter.
3. And now restart machine.
4. OK now again open terminal and start typing on terminal and type next apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.
5. Restart machine.
Now you can see the result, all works great, problem solved

Don't do that!! it'll delete important things from Kali Linux, it screwed my terminal up, removed some packages, and I had to reinstall the system.

**hanucann** · 2016-09-15

I solved paste this in terminal:

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

**null** · 2016-09-15

Originally Posted by hanucann

I solved paste this in terminal:

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

Did you know how to read?
Job for pulseaudio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status pulseaudio.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

**FrancisKym** · 2016-09-21

This works fine!

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

**Sudo_Root** · 2016-09-25

Originally Posted by hanucann

I solved paste this in terminal:

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

well done, its works by my, just simple thing to use it

**Xeno** · 2016-09-26

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

Works fine, many thanks.

X.

**edward2005** · 2016-09-27

Originally Posted by Xeno

Works fine, many thanks.

X.

:~# curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu.../pulseaudio.sh | bash

yes it work , just before do it run :~# apt-get install curl

**Razzer1911** · 2016-09-29

So for me worked : sudo apt-get install libasound2 alsa-utils alsa-oss .... after install > alsamixer

Than put Speaker and Main on 100

**Sagaryal** · 2016-10-01

Originally Posted by gtfovinny

Thanks for this solution!!

Don't do that!! it'll delete important things from Kali Linux, it screwed my terminal up, removed some packages, and I had to reinstall the system.

Yes It actually will remove the kali system and will have problem in our Graphical Interface. I want to know why is that?

**vailixi** · 2016-10-06

I've tried most of the stuff suggested here. Audio is still not working. I don't Debian people will ever get their $*&t together on audio.

1 sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol
2 rm -r ~/ .pulse
3 sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0
4 restart now
5 shutdown -r now
6 apt-get udpate
7 apt-get update
8 apt-get install -y pulseaudio gnome-core
9 cd bin
10 cd /bin
11 rm pulse
12 rm ./pulse
13 shutdown -r now
14 apt-get install -y alsa-utils
15 alsamixer
16 pulseaudio -D
17 systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

**B2OG4N** · 2016-10-16

Originally Posted by Sudo_Root

well done, its works by my, just simple thing to use it

It work for me too!

**star5rick** · 2016-10-25

Thanks problem solved be blessed null

**MajorLinuxNoob** · 2016-11-02

Hi Kali Linux,

this worked for me thanks,

MajorLinuxNoob

**rotnox** · 2016-11-20

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

It worked for me...Thank you very much

**jimmyluu** · 2016-11-25

to fix the problems :
apt-get install pulseaudio
pulseaudio --start

**caos420** · 2016-12-02

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

thank you very much!! it solved the problem!!

**iza** · 2016-12-02

Originally Posted by kvadrat

Hey,

Did this

Now sound seems to be working (thanks),
but it deleted my settings like keyboard shortcuts and the only file I had on my desktop and in my Home folder (10/10, would do again),
it might have been step 2 that did that.

Did you sble to fix the deleted setting if its yes help me please i did the same all my files got deleted

**bagas17** · 2016-12-05

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

Thanks for this solution!

**nu11secur1ty** · 2016-12-09

ORIGINAL POST =)

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

NOTE: This program is using only with "root" user!
Have fun and Best Regards.

**nu11secur1ty** · 2016-12-10

Originally Posted by caos420

thank you very much!! it solved the problem!!

welcome, my friend =)
-----------------------------------
I hope to help on those who want.

**nu11secur1ty** · 2016-12-11

Originally Posted by star5rick

Thanks problem solved be blessed null

Thank you, buddy. =)

**ankur** · 2016-12-17

Thank you so much!!

**nu11secur1ty** · 2016-12-19

Originally Posted by ankur

Thank you so much!!

You welcome, my friend.

**sgtkeebler** · 2016-12-25

Thanks guys, I skipped over that really long thing deanMKD1 put because of the deleting of important things. I one of the other things you guys put, and now my sound works! I love the xfce Kali 2016.2, but my sound wasn't working. With the original Kali install I have never had any issues with wifi, sound or blue-tooth. But I went to try LXDE my wifi kept dropping out randomly, then I started trying xfce which I absolutely love, but my sound wouldn't work. Now it does, thanks all!

**DarkMuerte** · 2016-12-30

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

i love you man

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-01-03

Originally Posted by DarkMuerte

i love you man

You welcome, my friend

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-01-20

Originally Posted by sgtkeebler

Thanks guys, I skipped over that really long thing deanMKD1 put because of the deleting of important things. I one of the other things you guys put, and now my sound works! I love the xfce Kali 2016.2, but my sound wasn't working. With the original Kali install I have never had any issues with wifi, sound or blue-tooth. But I went to try LXDE my wifi kept dropping out randomly, then I started trying xfce which I absolutely love, but my sound wouldn't work. Now it does, thanks all!

Dear, This is not a Windows ok! You have to read a lot about Linux, to understand what actually is important on some distro, and what is not!

**frank082** · 2017-01-25

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

wonderful!

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-03-02

Originally Posted by caos420

thank you very much!! it solved the problem!!

You welcome

Originally Posted by DarkMuerte

i love you man

You welcome

**xtreeme** · 2017-05-29

Originally Posted by null

run this command in your terminal:

Code:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nu11secur1ty/pulseaudio/master/pulseaudio.sh | bash

Have fun and Best Regards.

the best, he works for me. thanks

**Turkster79** · 2017-06-02

Originally Posted by deanMKD1

1. Turn on Kali Linux, open terminal and type in sudo killall pulseaudio and hit enter. Now type next.

sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol

and again hit enter.
2. Continue typing and now type rm ~/ .pulse-cookie , after that type rm -r ~/ .pulse and after this type next.

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0

and at last type apt-get install kmix and hit enter.
3. And now restart machine.
4. OK now again open terminal and start typing on terminal and type next apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.
5. Restart machine.
Now you can see the result, all works great, problem solved

hey everyone, don't do what this user said. it will send your linux to stone age and delete your personal files. i am not sure why his post is still there. like a bait waiting for users to click it.

**coder25** · 2017-06-26

Thanks. After doing some other stuff, I issued your terminal command and it worked!

My history:
>I installed Kali Linux 2017.1 on a bootable USB 3.0 flash drive.
>Kali had no sound and no network manager.
>Later at a library, Kali recognized my Ethernet connection.
>Using apt-get, I installed Synaptic.
>Using Synaptic, I installed Wicd network manager and Mousepad text editor.
>A huge update using Synaptic ended abruptly (probably my error, a "control C").
>At the next session I was advised there were broken packages, I followed the instructions:

>MESSAGE FROM SYNAPTIC:
"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
After running dpkg, I continued the Synaptic update: I used "Edit/Fix Broken Packages", and "Settings/Filters/Broken".
The update successfully morphed my system up to Kali Linux 2017.2.

>Next, over a few short sessions I did more updates and also installed:
Konsole, PcManFm, Dolphin, Gedit, and Chromium.
Need to install Sublime Text 3.

>I mistakenly thought that Pulse Audio was installed. It wasn't.
There did exist a folder called "/etc/pulse/" which contained the single file called "client.conf"

>TO CURE NO SOUND CONTROL IN PANEL AND NO SOUND:
->two lines in etc/pulse/client.conf:
; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no
changed the lines to
auto-connect-localhost = yes
auto-connect-display = yes

>PER advice at: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/volu...ol-gone/2363/2
I installed
->PAMAN package (Pulse Audio Manager)
->PASYSTRAY (Pulse Audio)

>Still no sound

>Finally, I used Synaptic to search for PulseAudio. Synaptic advised that PulseAudio was _NOT_ installed.
Using Synaptic, I installed PulseAudio.

>Still no sound.

>I applied your terminal command as follows:
==ENTERED TERMINAL COMMAND FOUND AT KALI LINUX FORUM:
root@kali:~# systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

==RESULT:
Created symlink /root/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/pulseaudio.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.se

Created symlink /root/.config/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.soc

>Finally, there is sound. Now I can take the Kali online tutorials.

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-08-06

Originally Posted by coder25

Thanks. After doing some other stuff, I issued your terminal command and it worked!

My history:
>I installed Kali Linux 2017.1 on a bootable USB 3.0 flash drive.
>Kali had no sound and no network manager.
>Later at a library, Kali recognized my Ethernet connection.
>Using apt-get, I installed Synaptic.
>Using Synaptic, I installed Wicd network manager and Mousepad text editor.
>A huge update using Synaptic ended abruptly (probably my error, a "control C").
>At the next session I was advised there were broken packages, I followed the instructions:

>MESSAGE FROM SYNAPTIC:
"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
After running dpkg, I continued the Synaptic update: I used "Edit/Fix Broken Packages", and "Settings/Filters/Broken".
The update successfully morphed my system up to Kali Linux 2017.2.

>Next, over a few short sessions I did more updates and also installed:
Konsole, PcManFm, Dolphin, Gedit, and Chromium.
Need to install Sublime Text 3.

>I mistakenly thought that Pulse Audio was installed. It wasn't.
There did exist a folder called "/etc/pulse/" which contained the single file called "client.conf"

>TO CURE NO SOUND CONTROL IN PANEL AND NO SOUND:
->two lines in etc/pulse/client.conf:
; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no
changed the lines to
auto-connect-localhost = yes
auto-connect-display = yes

>PER advice at: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/volu...ol-gone/2363/2
I installed
->PAMAN package (Pulse Audio Manager)
->PASYSTRAY (Pulse Audio)

>Still no sound

>Finally, I used Synaptic to search for PulseAudio. Synaptic advised that PulseAudio was _NOT_ installed.
Using Synaptic, I installed PulseAudio.

>Still no sound.

>I applied your terminal command as follows:
==ENTERED TERMINAL COMMAND FOUND AT KALI LINUX FORUM:
root@kali:~# systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio

==RESULT:
Created symlink /root/.config/systemd/user/default.target.wants/pulseaudio.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.se

Created symlink /root/.config/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket -> /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.soc

>Finally, there is sound. Now I can take the Kali online tutorials.

You welcome buddy.
This is the rule of the "systemD" and actually, you don't need from, sound - especially on this OS.

I take decision to write this script because somehow someone wants to listen to little music sometime

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-09-23

Originally Posted by star5rick

Thanks problem solved be blessed null

You, welcome =)

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-09-23

Originally Posted by frank082

wonderful!

You, welcome =)

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-09-23

Originally Posted by xtreeme

the best, he works for me. thanks

You, welcome =)

**nu11secur1ty** · 2017-09-23

Originally Posted by FrancisKym

This works fine!

You, welcome =)

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