update broke pulseaudio

[Neal Becker]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> 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

100% reproducible.  pulseaudio -D works.  start-pulseaudio-kde silently 
fails.