'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 30/09/10 02:50 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 16:00 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> I suspect this is something to do with gconf. >> >> paprefs just sets some keys in gconf and it's up to module-gconf to >> actually read and process them. >> >> I believe (tho' have not checked) that module-gconf will not wait for >> gconf itself to be loaded before being considered "loaded" therefore, >> the set-default-sink combined in default.pa may not work, even if the >> gconf is available and working. >> >> Out of curiosity, does unloading/reloading just module-gconf make the >> simultaneous output appear? (as opposed to killing the whole of the PA >> daemon) It's not any more elegant a solution but it does narrow down >> where the problem lies :D > > Isn't it always this way... now that I want to test that it starts > working properly every single boot. The next time I see this issue I'll > be sure to try unloading/reloading module-gconf. Probably a race > condition of some sort. hehe, yup! 9 out of 10 problem are solved simply by saying "Hey, this is weird. Hey, come see this. Look, when I do this, that happe... oh wait it didn't" :p Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
