Does anybody know what package this is in....?

[Colin J Thomson]

On Wednesday 10 July 2013 20:43:07 Bill Oliver wrote:
> I just had the oddest thing happen to me.  I performed a multipackage update
> on F19.  I don't remember what packages, it was just one of those
> notifications of "You have 18 updates pending" and I hit "Update."
> 
> When I rebooted my box, my alsa system was dead.  No little mixer icon in
> the system tray (I am running KDE), no sound, no nothing.  Alsamixer
> ncurses program was still there, but changing levels didn't change the
> (nonexistent) sound.
> 
> I brought up Apper (the KDE software manager) and it indicated that the
> alsa-firmware, alsa-lib, and alsa-tools were not installed -- though they
> had been before.  I tried to install them, but nothing happened.  So, then
> I went to the cli and tried yum install alsa-firmware, and it came back
> with the statement that it was already installed!
> 
> So, I *reinstalled* them using yum reinstall.  At that point things started
> working again.
> 
> But... I still can't get the little mixer icon on my system tray.  It's not
> an option when I try to configure it, though all the rest are still there. 
> I can add the "ALSA volume control" plasmoid, and it works, but I'd like
> the little icon in the system tray.
> 
> So, I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Anybody know why an update would kill the sound system?

I would have a look at yum's logs to check what was updated and possibly 
removed..
 
> 2) What package might I need to reinstall to get that little widget in the
> system tray?

Yum install kmix should fix it for you.

Colin
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