On Wednesday 10 July 2013 20:43:07 Bill Oliver wrote: > I just had the oddest thing happen to me. I performed a multipackage update > on F19. I don't remember what packages, it was just one of those > notifications of "You have 18 updates pending" and I hit "Update." > > When I rebooted my box, my alsa system was dead. No little mixer icon in > the system tray (I am running KDE), no sound, no nothing. Alsamixer > ncurses program was still there, but changing levels didn't change the > (nonexistent) sound. > > I brought up Apper (the KDE software manager) and it indicated that the > alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, and alsa-tools were not installed -- though they > had been before. I tried to install them, but nothing happened. So, then > I went to the cli and tried yum install alsa-firmware, and it came back > with the statement that it was already installed! > > So, I *reinstalled* them using yum reinstall. At that point things started > working again. > > But... I still can't get the little mixer icon on my system tray. It's not > an option when I try to configure it, though all the rest are still there. > I can add the "ALSA volume control" plasmoid, and it works, but I'd like > the little icon in the system tray. > > So, I have two questions: > > 1) Anybody know why an update would kill the sound system? I would have a look at yum's logs to check what was updated and possibly removed.. > 2) What package might I need to reinstall to get that little widget in the > system tray? Yum install kmix should fix it for you. Colin -- Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's Cat) Registered Linux user number #342953 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
