update broke pulseaudio

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 13 14:35:35 UTC 2010


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
> 
> then pulseaudio is back in settings/multimedia and seems to work.  Must be
> some startup problem.
> 
I think a bug report needs filing.  Mine is the i686 version, and the same 
thing happened here.  I've checked that I'm using 4.4.0-3 on F12.  I also 
found that those two commands cured it.  If you file a report, please give us 
the number so that I can confirm that i686 is also affected.

Anne
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