Rex Dieter wrote: > On 04/13/2010 09:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Tuesday 13 April 2010 12:18:31 Neal Becker wrote: >>> 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 > > Instead of > pulseaudio -D > > can you try using > start-pulseaudio-kde > instead? > > -- Rex 100% reproducible. pulseaudio -D works. start-pulseaudio-kde silently fails.
