ALSA works, but PulseAudio fails

    Hello everybody,

    I crashed up my audio configuration on my RPi 4 with LE 10.0.2 (I tried to get dual audio via HDMI and USB simultanously, but failed). I have already reverted all configurations for dual audio.

    But however, PulseAudio stopped working:

    and:

    Code
    # pactl list sinks short
0    auto_null    module-null-sink.c    s16le 2ch 44100Hz    SUSPENDED

    PA seems not to start correctly after the boot process:

    Code
    # pacmd list-cards
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.


    But ALSA detects all the devices and can use them:


    Which configuration setting am I missing to get PA working again?

    Thanks!

    Hi, do you really need simultaneous audio? I was in the same situation, HDMI+USB audio (now HDMI & I2S DAC :) ), basically using the USB/DAC for music and net radio. I had issues too with pulse audio, quality, sometimes works, sometimes not, struggled a lot to make to work stable. Now I'm using the "Audio Profiles" addon, what able to switch the audio output for different media format. If you don't need to have simultaneous audio (another challenge to synchronize the HDMI and the USB delay...), only different output for different type of media, try it. More info here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Audio_Profiles