audio problem in ubuntu

In this post I am going to share how I fix audio problem in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop. A few months ago while listening some video I found the audio suddenly stopped working. It was quite surprising.

Problem Summary

The speaker was working fine but headphones were not working after connecting to audio jack.

It is quite obvious that on such audio problem you will check if any mute settings is done . In my case audio settings was not mute.

Fix the audio problem in Ubuntu system

Follow the given below steps to solve the audio problem in Ubuntu System.

Remove pulseaudio and also-base package

    sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio
    

    Re-intstall pulseaudio and also-base package

      sudo apt-get -y install alsa-base pulseaudio
      

      Reload alsa

        sudo alsa force-reload
        

        You may have to restart your system to make audio working. Share your solution in comment section, it will help others too.

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