4.4.3 update: pulse is completely broken.

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Thu May 6 10:56:34 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 05:40 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:27 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Just finished updating my machine to KDE SC 4.4.3 from kde-unstable.
> >> Logout / login cycle and I lost all the sound devices in the the
> >> multimedia section in systemsettings. (I see only "PulseAudio Sound
> >> Server")
> >>
> >> As a result, I have no sound.
> >>
> >>
> >> - Gilboa
> >
> > init 1 && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* && init 5
> > Seems to have solved it.
> >
> > - Gilboa
> 
> What made you think of that?

Just before the upgrade I manually cleaned up /tmp. A program left tons
of junk there. Most likely I was overzealous and deleted one file too
many which killed pulse.

- Gilboa



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