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Bug 1161883 - Headphones not detected by pulseaudio
Summary: Headphones not detected by pulseaudio
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: 21
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
: 1161919 1162835 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: F21FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-11-08 19:24 UTC by Anthony Crognale
Modified: 2014-11-22 00:46 UTC (History)
24 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-11-22 00:46:01 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:

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Various output logs (122.53 KB, text/plain)
2014-11-08 19:24 UTC, Anthony Crognale 		no flags Details
Output from alsa-info.sh (39.37 KB, text/plain)
2014-11-08 19:39 UTC, Anthony Crognale 		no flags Details
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Description Anthony Crognale 2014-11-08 19:24:15 UTC 
Created attachment 955371 [details]
Various output logs

Description of problem: My headphones are not detected by Pulseaudio. When I unplug them and replug them in, the following error message is provided in journalctl:

Nov 08 14:13:10 apollo pulseaudio[1967]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Availability of port 'analog-output-headphones' is inconsistent!

As a result, headphones are not listed under the available output devices in the sound settings. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 21
Pulseaudio - 24.20141103gitaec81.fc21


How reproducible: Reproduces every time across different sets of headphones


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unplug headphones
2. Plug headphones in
3. Open up sound settings and see if headphones are an available output source

Actual results: Headphones are listed under available output devices


Expected results: Headphones are not listed under available output devices


Additional info:
Comment 1 Anthony Crognale 2014-11-08 19:26:41 UTC 
Forgot to add kernel version: Linux apollo 3.17.2-300.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 30 19:23:48 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2014-11-08 19:34:53 UTC 
Please attach/post the output from 'alsa-info.sh'
Comment 3 Anthony Crognale 2014-11-08 19:39:06 UTC 
Created attachment 955372 [details]
Output from alsa-info.sh
Comment 4 Joachim Frieben 2014-11-09 07:08:21 UTC 
After upgrading to pulseaudio-5.0-24.20141103gitaec81.fc21, no sound is available on my desktop system any longer. This affects the normal speakers, too. Thus, this is no headphone issue. Downgrading to pulseaudio-5.0-10.fc21 restores the audio capabilities.
Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2014-11-09 14:00:00 UTC 
did you restart your session after installing -24?  If not, can you test that?

I found that it's new autospawn behavior didn't seem to work until I did that too.
Comment 6 Anthony Crognale 2014-11-09 17:56:55 UTC 
Joachim, I think you and I are experiencing different issues then, I have sound through my internal speakers on 24.20141103gitaec81.fc21.
Comment 7 Anthony Crognale 2014-11-09 23:02:16 UTC 
Had some time to tinker. I downgraded pulseaudio and friends:

  pulseaudio.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21               pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21           pulseaudio-libs.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21         
  pulseaudio-libs-glib2.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21    pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21    pulseaudio-module-x11.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21   
  pulseaudio-utils.x86_64 5.0-10.fc21        


I can confirm that headphones now work again after running `pulseaudio -k`.
Comment 8 Nils Philippsen 2014-11-10 10:18:07 UTC 
Same here with -24.20141103gitaec81.fc21 (broken) vs. -10.fc21 (working).

(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #5)
> did you restart your session after installing -24?  If not, can you test
> that?

After installing -24 (and finding sound not working), I rebooted the machine and saw the same behavior:

- with headphones unplugged, the internal speakers were displayed as available and working
- with headphones plugged, neither headphones nor speakers were displayed as available, nor did sound work

This is on a Lenovo Thinkpad T520, FWIW.

Bug #1161919 seems to be a duplicate.
Comment 9 Shawn Starr 2014-11-10 15:41:19 UTC 
I confirm this on my Lenovo Thinkpad W500.

( 101.882|   0.000) D: [pulseaudio] device-port.c: Setting port analog-output-speaker to status no
( 101.882|   0.000) W: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Availability of port 'analog-output-headphones' is inconsistent!

running pulseaudio in debug
Comment 10 Rex Dieter 2014-11-10 16:04:24 UTC 
Upstream pointed me to this thread:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-October/022205.html

with some proposed, but not yet committed patches.
Comment 11 Satish Balay 2014-11-10 23:28:17 UTC 
Same issue on a Thinkpad T430 [i.e headphones not functional]. downgrading pulseaudio gets it working.
Comment 12 Rob Adornato 2014-11-11 03:21:01 UTC 
*** Bug 1161919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Rob Adornato 2014-11-11 03:29:23 UTC 
Perhaps bug should be reassigned to  wtaymans, as my basically identical bug on the Thinkpad T410 was redirected to him.
Comment 14 Rex Dieter 2014-11-11 04:59:08 UTC 
He's CC'd already, no worries.
Comment 15 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2014-11-11 10:05:24 UTC 
Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 21-final by Fedora user pbrobinson using the blocker tracking app because:

 I believe non working headphones is part of the Working_sound beta criteria.
Comment 16 Wim Taymans 2014-11-11 14:43:59 UTC 
Can't we put -10.fc21 back? switching to a git version at this stage seems to be too much risk.
Comment 17 Satish Balay 2014-11-11 16:10:30 UTC 
currently 24.20141103gitaec81.fc21 is in updates testing. With the -ve karma - hopefully it won't get into release or updates. And pulseaudio-5.0-10.fc21.x86_64
would be the version in F21

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-14476/pulseaudio-5.0-24.20141103gitaec81.fc21?_csrf_token=61b9e5fd1ff32f9f72c8f0cb25708283acb21355
Comment 18 Parag Nemade 2014-11-12 08:18:23 UTC 
I too find this issue on Lenovo T430s. Internal speakers without headphone plugged works fine. When plugged headphone no sound.
Comment 19 Rex Dieter 2014-11-12 12:43:14 UTC 
The update that prompted this bug has been revoked,
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-14476/pulseaudio-5.0-24.20141103gitaec81.fc21

You can run,
yum distro-sync
to downgrade to the last known-good release (pulseaudio-5.0-10)
Comment 20 Rui Matos 2014-11-12 18:43:18 UTC 
*** Bug 1162835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 21 Fabiano Franz 2014-11-13 16:52:49 UTC 
Same issue on a Thinkpad T440s with Fedora 21 Beta and the latest "yum update". The version right from the ISO (without the latest updates) works fine.

On "Settings" / "Sound":

- Without headphone plugged in, "Speakers - Built-In Audio" is shown as device for sound output.
- Plugs in headphone: nothing shown as device for sound output.
- Removes headphone: "Speakers - Built-In Audio" is shown again. 

On journalctl plugging in the headphone makes:

Nov 13 14:48:43 localhost.localdomain pulseaudio[1970]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Availability of port 'analog-output-headphones' is inconsistent!
Comment 22 Fabiano Franz 2014-11-13 16:55:15 UTC 
And confirmed that a "yum distro-sync" puts PulseAudio back to 5.0-10.fc21, after a "pulseaudio -k" it's working again.
Comment 23 Fedora Update System 2014-11-14 16:10:50 UTC 
pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21
Comment 24 Todd Warner 2014-11-15 00:53:34 UTC 
Version: pulseaudio-5.0-24

Ditto, same issue on the Lenovo x230. I can get things working by installing the extra PulseAudio Volume Control and then forcing the laptop to use the undetected Headphones: listed as "Port: Headphones (unplugged)" -- and of course, they are plugged in. :)

So, there is a work around for my hardware, but nothing is automatic. We'll see what comes with the 5.0.25 update. Thanks

-todd
Comment 25 Fedora Update System 2014-11-15 09:21:39 UTC 
Package pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-15132/pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 26 Rob Adornato 2014-11-16 11:22:01 UTC 
From my perspective, it looks like this bug is resolved.  Who gets to close it?
Comment 27 Joachim Frieben 2014-11-16 11:47:54 UTC 
Package pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21 also resolves the external speaker issue with a Lenovo ThinkPad T400 reported in comment #4.
Comment 28 Mike Ruckman 2014-11-19 18:57:37 UTC 
Discussed in the 2014-11-19 blocker review meeting. This violates Beta criterion "The installed system must be able to play back sound with gstreamer-based applications." We elevated this to a blocker because it's a clear violation of the Beta Criterion.
Comment 29 Wim Taymans 2014-11-21 15:57:16 UTC 
The regression should be fixed in 6.0 RC1.
Comment 30 Fedora Update System 2014-11-22 00:46:01 UTC 
pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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