Neal Becker wrote: > 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 I found if I do pulseaudio -k pulseaudio -D then pulseaudio is back in settings/multimedia and seems to work. Must be some startup problem.
