Bug 51939

Summary:	there's no way to 'pacmd suspend false' the server, and check if it was successful
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Anton Novikov <an146>
Component:	tools	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Anton Novikov 2012-07-10 10:03:56 UTC

If pacmd fails, there's no way to check that:

$ pacmd suspend false; echo $?
Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information.
>>> Failed to resume/suspend all sinks: Input/Output error
>>> 0

Comment 1 Felipe Sateler 2014-05-07 15:19:55 UTC

With pa 5 it is still impossible to tell wether pacmd succeeded:

% pacmd load-module imaginary-module ; echo $?
Module load failed.
0

Comment 2 Tanu Kaskinen 2014-05-07 20:17:46 UTC

It's generally better to use pactl rather than pacmd.

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 10:05:32 UTC

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