Neal Becker wrote: > Don't know if it's kde related. This morning a large update, including > kernel. Now kde tells me: > > "The audio playback device doesn't work, falling back to internal..." > > A look at system settings/multimedia tells me that it wants to remove > pulseaudio. > > My log says: > > Apr 13 06:19:21 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread 2068 > of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice > level -11. > Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread 2319 > of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5. > Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread 2322 > of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority 5. > Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread 2362 > of process 2362 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority at nice > level -11. > Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost pulseaudio[2362]: pid.c: Daemon already running. > > ps aux | grep pulse > nbecker 2068 0.1 0.2 449432 5964 ? S<sl 06:19 0:00 > /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start > nbecker 2359 0.0 0.1 92204 3124 ? S 06:19 0:00 > /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper > > Any ideas? This looks suspicious: Apr 13 06:09:02 Updated: phonon-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64 Apr 13 06:09:03 Updated: phonon-backend-xine-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64