update broke pulseaudio

[Rex Dieter]

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