Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:07 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You > might > > walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely > > are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudi

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You might walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudio, I reduce the wave packet, like opening the cat's door? best regard

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:08 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like > > "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that > > deletes it every week". We're still left with a myster

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that deletes it every week". We're still left with a mystery, but it's slightly smaller now. actually, it's still a mystery

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com) wrote: > > ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio > >drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / >drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/p

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2021, mick crane wrote: > > > That is a bit weird. Is it an actual file and not a link ? > > it's a file. Since I re-enabled my monitoring, it didn't disappear. > wait and see... Have you done *any* basic, proactive analysis

Re: OT (was: Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day)

2021-03-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 7:22 AM wrote: > On Sunday, February 28, 2021 10:16:34 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Hint: You know you're getting old when you find your 2nd wife on dating > > sites 😂 > > I hope that is your 2nd ex-wife ;-) > Well of course "ex-wife". Do I look like a Mormon polygamist??

OT (was: Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day)

2021-03-01 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, February 28, 2021 10:16:34 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Hint: You know you're getting old when you find your 2nd wife on dating > sites 😂 I hope that is your 2nd ex-wife ;-)

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-03-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021, mick crane wrote: That is a bit weird. Is it an actual file and not a link ? it's a file. Since I re-enabled my monitoring, it didn't disappear. wait and see... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 12:05 PM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > In Schrödinger's Equation of quantum physics, "in practice, the square of > > the absolute value of the wave function at each point is taken to define > a > > probability density function".

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-28 Thread mick crane
On 2021-02-28 11:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or do

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-28 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or does apt/dpkg actually show that the entire pac

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: In Schrödinger's Equation of quantum physics, "in practice, the square of the absolute value of the wave function at each point is taken to define a probability density function". the situation is rather complex now, after the experiments followi

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:16 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 7:57 AM Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> >> > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The >> closer >> > you look, the more dice you have to roll

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 7:57 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The > closer > > you look, the more dice you have to roll > > > but according Einstein, God doesn't play dice > it se

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Your best bet there is alsa with apulse to pretend that it's PulseAudio. the main difference is that it took 15 seconds to install pulseaudio and make it to work, and after 15 minutes of fight, I'm unable to make apulse to work I don't see why I shoul

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The closer you look, the more dice you have to roll but according Einstein, God doesn't play dice it seems he was wrong, this time best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Could be an option. What do you need pulseaudio for that > > isn't handled by alsa, jack and/or apulse? > > it's needed to have sound on youtube. > I tried your other suggestions a long time ago, and could not make them to >

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread IL Ka
> > > I can't answer that now, because I run > "ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio" every minute to find when it disappears, > and curiously, it didn't disappear this night > I'll see what happens after removing the ls command in cron. > You could use ``inotify-tools`` https://packages.deb

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:18 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > I can't answer that now, because I run > "ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio" every minute to find when it disappears, > and curiously, it didn't disappear this night > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it befor

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or does apt/dpkg actually show that the entire p

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Could be an option. What do you need pulseaudio for that isn't handled by alsa, jack and/or apulse? it's needed to have sound on youtube. I tried your other suggestions a long time ago, and could not make them to work. I'll try again today best regards,

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 3:13 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. > > > Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! > > > > very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. > > Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! > > very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my pulseaudio problem, > unless you suggest to don't use it !

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my pulseaudio problem, unless you suggest to don't use it ! best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: When did this start to happen? . for years? . since installation? Is this buster? Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? Is it just that binary that goes

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Feb 2021 at 09:38:08 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > every morning, ls /usr/bin/pulseaudio gives: > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/pulseaudio': No such file or directory > and I must issue "aptitude reinstall pulseaudio" I plan to put the ls > command every minute to find when it disap

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! ☺ On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 7:09 AM wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > > > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the de

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the deletion and then > > watching the logs to see who complains may help you pinpoint the > > culprit. Or it may not. But it's worth a try. > > Watch

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > > > and see if it continues disappearing. > > And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the deletion and then > watching the logs to see who complains may help you pinpoint the > culprit. Or it may not. But it's worth a try. Watching the logs was not in the advice. With that addition, the advice is reason

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
Nicolas George (geo...@nsup.org) wrote: > fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > > > and see if it continues disappearing. > > And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they should just take > paink

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread Nicolas George
fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > and see if it continues disappearing. And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they should just take painkillers? Fixing the symptom without understanding the issu

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:37:34AM -0300, fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com wrote: [...] > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > and see if it continues disappearing. And watch your log files. Perhaps you catch the perpetrator whining loudly that i

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

2021-02-23 Thread fm+deb+user
> >hi, >the problem is exactly what says my subject. >every morning, ls /usr/bin/pulseaudio gives: > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/pulseaudio': No such file or directory >and I must issue "aptitude reinstall pulseaudio" >I plan to put the ls command every minute to find when it disappears, >unle