Hello list,

I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is.

I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to 
be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek 
Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired connection.

The problem seems to be in my user account, because I can create a new user, 
then adjust control panel values to suit, logging out and in after each 
change. The sound keeps operating as it should - until I reboot, and then it's 
dead.

By 'dead' I mean (a) it's silent, and (b) when I click the control panel 
button to test a speaker, the icon changes colour to show it's working, but it 
just hangs and never comes back.

This reminds me of another problem, in which Konsole windows are not always 
restored after a login. This has still not been fixed; two bugs refer:

1.  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819459
2.  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445862

Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user 
account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - but 
that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot 
attached.)

What can possibly live under /home/prh and cause all this disruption? I might 
suspect I'd been hacked, but I've rebuilt a new system several times, and I've 
lost count of the times I've thrown away my user account and started again.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.