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.