On Tue, 12.05.09 12:38, Dimi Paun (dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > This time I can get no sound of Firefox or Rhythmbox, > despite PA running in the background. > > Somehow I now have 2 PA instances: > > [dimi@dimi ~]$ ps aux | grep pulseaudio > gdm 2547 0.0 0.1 101032 4240 ? Ssl May09 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog > dimi 2699 1.0 0.4 170960 17604 ? R<sl May09 43:42 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog > dimi 30180 0.0 0.0 4208 732 pts/5 S+ 11:35 0:00 grep pulseaudio > > I don't seem to get working sound for more than > 2 days in a row. Folks, I don't do anything > non-standard. fedora-devel is not a bug tracking system. Please file a bug about this. And please provide a proper description what is going on. Something more than "doesn't work" or "no sound". > I am asking again: is this normal rate of problems? > Filing a good bug report (after trying to diagnose > the problem) took me 1h+ last time, I just can't keep > doing that in the middle of my work day. > > A few more notes: > - I said that PA doesn't restart if killed. I was wrong. > It does, except that Flash doesn't reconnect. However, > Rhythmbox does reconnect, and I tested that several times. > Now even it doesn't want to work Flash is closed source sw, we cannot fix that. > - I did an Update, but I didn't reboot or restart. However, > my gut is telling me this is not related to the update, > but rather with another PA failure. I got an error about > some "Stream too big" or somesuch. There is no such error in PA. Please file a bug and include an exact description of the error message. > - The PA volume control shows Firefox connected, but I > get no sound. However, I can't see Rhythmbox. > > P.S. After killing the PA instance owned by me (dimi), I > got sound again out of Rhythmbox. Have you reconfigured the default gst disk? You need to make sure that "pulsesink" is the default sink. If you configure it to something else it's your own fault fi things don't work as expected anymore. Use gconf-editor and look in /system/gstreamer/0.10/default. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
