I suddenly had a sound issue on my openSUSE machine. There were no sound output devices available to the system to play anything. My laptop was mute. I had never seen this. EVERYTHING was gone. Rebooting didn’t fix it, rolling back to a previous snapshot didn’t fix it, I had no idea what I had done to cause the sound devices to be completely gone. After a bit of further digging, it ONLY affected my user account. Other user accounts were not affected.
Thankfully, the openSUSE Wiki has a great sound troubleshooting page where I found the solution.
https://en.opensuse.org/Sound_troubleshooting
What seemingly has happened is that my sound devices are not “populated” but it can easily be repopulated by running this:
sudo udevadm triggerIncredibly, everything is back to normal and life is good, once again. This is a weird thing that has happened to me twice. I don’t know what triggers it happening but the fix is simple enough.
Final Thoughts
Any sort of sound irritations like this is quite frustrating. I know that my need to be on the more leading edge of the software front on openSUSE opens me up to more of this kind of excitement. Frankly, this is why I decided to go from using Leap to Tumbleweed because it is a bit less “boring”. Sure, this was a 10 minute distraction to my day this past Sunday but I’m sure this will disappear with the next snapshot.
This reminds me of the days of sound troubles of Linux some 20 years ago. I know this is but a small bump in the road and it JUST might be only me that experiences this. Time to do an update and see what happens!
References
https://en.opensuse.org/Sound_troubleshooting
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