update broke pulseaudio

[Neal Becker]

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

then pulseaudio is back in settings/multimedia and seems to work.  Must be 
some startup problem.