4.3.4: KDE - no sound.

[Gilboa Davara]

Hello all,

I just installed F12 on my private workstation, and upgrade the
"built-in" KDE to 4.3.4 from kde-redhat unstable (x86_64, some i686 libs
taken from the i386 repo).
Login, logout, and no more sound.
By looking at the control center, I can see that KDE only sees the
Pulseaudio sound server (instead of Pulse + on-board HDA Intel (alsa) +
SB Audigy 2 (alsa) and USB microphone (USB camera).
Far worse, when I try to test the pulse audio server (from the control
center), I get a "Pulse audio server not responding - falling back to
(empty).".

Trying to access the pulse server from pavucontrol or mplayer (-ao
pulse), seems to work OK, so it doesn't look like a pulse problem.

I moved to init 1, killed all the user-mode services, cleaned /tmp
and /var/tmp and switched back to init 5, with no effect.

Switching backends from xine to gstreamer, had little effect.

Any ideas?

$ rpm -qa | egrep 'pulse|phonon' | sort
phonon-4.3.80-2.fc12.i686
phonon-4.3.80-2.fc12.x86_64
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.3.80-2.fc12.i686
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.3.80-2.fc12.x86_64
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.80-2.fc12.i686
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.80-2.fc12.x86_64
phonon-devel-4.3.80-2.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-1.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-libs-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-devel-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-1.fc12.i686
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-zeroconf-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.21-1.fc12.2.rex.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-0.9.21-1.fc12.x86_64
wine-pulseaudio-1.1.32-1.fc12.i686

- Gilboa