See if it works after you remove (and backup) .asoundrc On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> What are the contents of /etc/asound.conf and ~/.asoundrc? >> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I am using kde 4.4.4. whenever i get any notifications knotify4 throws >>> up error stating seg fault. this is very annoying cause sometime while >>> chatting if chat window is unfocused, if someone replies, i get >>> notification and immediately knotify throws error. >>> >>> Application: KNotify (knotify4), signal: Segmentation fault >>> [KCrash Handler] >>> #5 0x00007f2fed7912f0 in snd_pcm_extplug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >>> #6 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >>> #7 0x00007f2fed76f135 in snd_pcm_plug_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >>> #8 0x00007f2fed750d65 in snd_pcm_close () from /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 >>> #9 0x00007f2febbd0f98 in gst_alsasink_close () from >>> /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalsa.so >>> #10 0x00007f2fec30eb86 in gst_audioringbuffer_close_device () from >>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >>> #11 0x00007f2fec2ff143 in gst_ring_buffer_close_device () from >>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >>> #12 0x00007f2fec30a396 in gst_base_audio_sink_change_state () from >>> /usr/lib/libgstaudio-0.10.so.0 >>> #13 0x00007f2fecbb28fc in gst_element_change_state () from >>> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 >>> #14 0x00007f2fecbb32e2 in gst_element_set_state_func () from >>> /usr/lib/libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 >>> #15 0x00007f2fed2efa2a in >>> Phonon::Gstreamer::AudioOutput::setOutputDevice(Phonon::ObjectDescription<(Phonon::ObjectDescriptionType)0> >>> const&) () >>> from /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_gstreamer.so >>> #16 0x00007f2ff7c2185c in >>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::setupBackendObject() () from >>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >>> #17 0x00007f2ff7c21e63 in >>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::createBackendObject() () from >>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >>> #18 0x00007f2ff7c1f0cc in >>> Phonon::AudioOutputPrivate::init(Phonon::Category) () from >>> /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 >>> #19 0x000000000040c871 in _start () >>> >> > > cat shows this error cat: /etc/asound.conf: No such file or directory. > > The output of cat ~/.asoundrc is > > ctl.equal { > type equal; > } > > pcm.plugequal { > type equal; > # Modify the line below if you don't > # want to use sound card 0. > #slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"; > #by default we want to play from more sources at time: > slave.pcm "plug:dmix"; > } > > #pcm.equal { > # Or if you want the equalizer to be your > # default soundcard uncomment the following > # line and comment the above line. > pcm.!default { > type plug; > slave.pcm plugequal; > } >