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System: Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.2LTS 64bits

Yesterday I migrated /home to a different partition using this guide. After rebooting everything was working great EXCEPT sound! I DO have sound in the log in screen, but once I log in there's no sound anymore and the sound indicator disappears. Upon opening the sound menu there's a bar, but no speaker icon. Using that bar doesn't do anything.

Sound menu screenshot

The sound configuration doesn't show any input or output device. This doesn't change whether I plug in headphones or not.

Running pulseaudio -k results in

e: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process.

Running pulseaudio --start results in

e: [pulseaudio] main.c: daemon startup failed.

Running aplay -l returns this, which makes me thing ALSA is running, but pulseaudio fails.

**** Lista de PLAYBACK dispositivos hardware **** tarjeta 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], dispositivo 3:

HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdispositivos: 1/1 Subdispositivo #0: subdevice

0 tarjeta 0: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], dispositivo 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] Subdispositivos: 1/1 Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0 tarjeta 0: HDMI

[HDA Intel HDMI], dispositivo 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] Subdispositivos:

1/1 Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0 tarjeta 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH],

dispositivo 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog] Subdispositivos:

1/1 Subdispositivo #0: subdevice #0

Running pulseaudio -v returns this

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not allowed

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not allowed

I: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: This is PulseAudio 8.0

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 43726408b370455c9d7d6c6693a1e225.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.

I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.

E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory not accessible: Permiso denegado

I went to ~/.config and didn't find any pulse folder.

Any ideas?

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Lucas D'Abate
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Thanks to @Takkat comment I realised this was a permissions issue. I was using an NTFS partition as a /home partition, and the /etc/fstab file was missing info about how to mount the partition, so it was owned by root.

I managed to solve it modifying the fstab file with sudo nano /etc/fstab and adding uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=xxx,fmask=yyy (the values you choose would depend on what restrictions you want to apply to the partition).

For those interested in how *mask work, check out this article.

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