qutebrowser has no sound

qutebrowser has no sound

[bdju]

Hello, I've been using qutebrowser for a few days, and for some reason
I have no sound. I don't see an entry for it in pavucontrol or
pulsemixer at all. Videos play fine, mostly, but there's no audio. I
watch most things in mpv, but for some sites it's really preferable to
watch in the browser, so hopefully I can find a solution.
I have yet to run into another program with broken audio.

guix (GNU Guix) 6c36daaac74b15cceae41caba0b291ae6d62ae17
qutebrowser v1.13.1

Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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For me Qutebrowser has stopped working a while ago with

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> qutebrowser
10:36:12 INFO: Run :adblock-update to get adblock lists.
10:36:12 CRITICAL: Could not find QtWebEngineProcess
Aborted
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Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[raingloom]

On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 10:36:37 +0200
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> For me Qutebrowser has stopped working a while ago with
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > qutebrowser  
> 10:36:12 INFO: Run :adblock-update to get adblock lists.
> 10:36:12 CRITICAL: Could not find QtWebEngineProcess
> Aborted
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 

This is just a guess:
If it's trying to find a process by name, it might fail to do so if the
executable is wrapped in a shell script.
eg.: /bin/yes would wrap /bin/.yes-real
so argv[0] would be ".yes-real" instead of "yes"

Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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The `qutebrowser' executable is wrapped indeed.  Not sure what to do
with it.

Can anyone else reproduce?

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Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro> writes:

> "bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> writes:
>
>> Hello, I've been using qutebrowser for a few days, and for some reason
>> I have no sound. I don't see an entry for it in pavucontrol or
>> pulsemixer at all. Videos play fine, mostly, but there's no audio. I
>> watch most things in mpv, but for some sites it's really preferable to
>> watch in the browser, so hopefully I can find a solution.
>> I have yet to run into another program with broken audio.
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been occasionally experiencing the same problem. While I don't
> know the permanent fix for this, I found that if I open pavucontrol and
> also play a bit of music with mpv and _only after_ this ritual open
> qutebrowser, I don't have problems with missing sound anymore.
>
> I suspect that it's got something to do with spawning some kind of
> processes for pulseaudio.

Pulseaudio should be started automatically (via dbus?) by applications
with pulseaudio support.  Perhaps qutebrowser doesn’t do the right thing
here.  Will it attempt to connect to ALSA?

-- 
Ricardo

Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Alexandru-Sergiu Marton]

"bdju" <bdju@tilde.team> writes:

> Hello, I've been using qutebrowser for a few days, and for some reason
> I have no sound. I don't see an entry for it in pavucontrol or
> pulsemixer at all. Videos play fine, mostly, but there's no audio. I
> watch most things in mpv, but for some sites it's really preferable to
> watch in the browser, so hopefully I can find a solution.
> I have yet to run into another program with broken audio.

Hi,

I've been occasionally experiencing the same problem. While I don't
know the permanent fix for this, I found that if I open pavucontrol and
also play a bit of music with mpv and _only after_ this ritual open
qutebrowser, I don't have problems with missing sound anymore.

I suspect that it's got something to do with spawning some kind of
processes for pulseaudio.

Cheers,
Sergiu

Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Alexandru-Sergiu Marton]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Pulseaudio should be started automatically (via dbus?) by applications
> with pulseaudio support.  Perhaps qutebrowser doesn’t do the right thing
> here.  Will it attempt to connect to ALSA?

I don't know how to check if it attempts to connect to ALSA. I couldn't
find anything on the Internet about checking this either, but that might
be because I don't know anything about sound systems to start with.

If anyone could provide some pointers I can try to look into this.

Sergiu

Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[Bonface M. K.]

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Alexandru-Sergiu Marton <brown121407@posteo.ro> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Pulseaudio should be started automatically (via dbus?) by applications
>> with pulseaudio support.  Perhaps qutebrowser doesn’t do the right thing
>> here.  Will it attempt to connect to ALSA?
>
> I don't know how to check if it attempts to connect to ALSA. I couldn't
> find anything on the Internet about checking this either, but that might
> be because I don't know anything about sound systems to start with.
>
> If anyone could provide some pointers I can try to look into this.
>

I don't know if this will help you in troubleshooting this particular
case but you could try:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246733. I hope that thread
provides some pointers.

> Sergiu
>
>

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Re: qutebrowser has no sound

[bdju]

On Fri Sep 11, 2020 at 8:43 AM CDT, Alexandru-Sergiu Marton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been occasionally experiencing the same problem. While I don't
> know the permanent fix for this, I found that if I open pavucontrol and
> also play a bit of music with mpv and _only after_ this ritual open
> qutebrowser, I don't have problems with missing sound anymore.
>
> I suspect that it's got something to do with spawning some kind of
> processes for pulseaudio.
>
> Cheers,
> Sergiu

Thank you for the suggestion.
I played some stuff in mpv and restarted qutebrowser, but no dice. Same
when I pkill'd pulseaudio, opened something in mpv, then tried
qutebrowser again. I had qutebrowser open during part of this, so I
tried again, closing qutebrowser, killing pulseaudio, opening mpv, then
finally launching qutebrowser again. I don't get any different results,
so perhaps my issue is not quite the same.
I agree that it's probably something to do with spawning pulseaudio
processes since nothing even shows up for it.