libasound2 not working after update

[Moltke]

Hi [member=6733]TheDead[/member] ,
Thank you for your answer.

I tried sudo pulseaudio -k and the following message apperared.
[pulseaudio] main.c: The daemon could not be stopped. The process does not exists.

There's no need to run this command with sudo

Code:

pulseaudio -k

and then

Code:

pulseaudio --start

will do just fine, pulseaudio is a user's service not a system's one, thus it can be managed by your user without sudo.

I also tried,
systemctl status pulseaudio-enable-autospawn.service
● pulseaudio-enable-autospawn.service
    Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit pulseaudio-enable-autospawn.service is masked>
    Active: inactive (dead)

Here, you're just asking systemd for the status of the service, and it has no effect on it, in short, it is an informative command to query whether a service is enabled, disabled, running, active, loaded, dead, inactive, but it doesn't change its status or solve anything. BTW, that service is masked for a reason, meaning it is disabled by default, and you should leave it as is. What you probably want to do here is

Code:

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

Read man systemctl and here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemctl

At last I run,
journalctl -f -t pulseaudio and the following message appeared:
may 10 09:23:23 jochoa-pc pulseaudio[2251]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.


Regards

This one should be run either as root or with sudo

Code:

sudo journalctl -f -t pulseaudio

since the dir where it gets the input /var/log it's owned by root, otherwise you get that error.  Read here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/Journal

What's the output of

Code:

pactl info

this should tell you whether pulseaudio is running or not.