Fedora 16 - Quite a lot of KDE stuff crashing

[Sonic]

On 11/30/2011 11:16 AM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> I had the same problem.
>
> Try to see if you can configure System Settings>  Multimedia>  Phonon.

Really? This can be fixed by changing the phonon backend?

>
> If you can prioritize the gstreamer backend instead of the vlc backend, I'll
> bet the crashes will disappear. If it crashes then you will need to edit the
> file:
>
> /home/eli/.kde/share/config/servicetype_profilerc

The 'phonon' entry in 'Multimedia' crashed. I then created this file as 
it wasn't there already.


> It should look something like
>
> [PhononBackend]
> Entry0_Preference=3
> Entry0_Service=phononbackends/gstreamer.desktop
> Entry1_Preference=2
> Entry1_Service=phononbackends/vlc.desktop
> Entry2_Preference=1
> Entry2_Service=phononbackends/xine.desktop
> NumberOfEntries=3

I copied the above text and pasted in the file. Did a reboot and nothing 
seems to have changed. Everything that crashed before still does!


regards,

Syam