[gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

[gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

[Alexander Puchmayr]

Hi there,

I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my 
desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based 
music/media player don't start playing music anymore. 
I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting 
any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine plays videos with 
sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde), for example audacity 
and xine, play mp3 files properly. 
In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test sounds 
properly.

Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the same 
time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have troubles 
yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system?

BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant:
[21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2 
sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000]
one per attempt to play anything in amarok.

Best regards
	Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

[Yohan Pereira]

On 16/09/13 at 01:37pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my 
> desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based 
> music/media player don't start playing music anymore. 
> I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting 
> any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine plays videos with 
> sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde), for example audacity 
> and xine, play mp3 files properly. 
> In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test sounds 
> properly.
> 
> Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the same 
> time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have troubles 
> yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system?
> 
> BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant:
> [21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2 
> sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000]
> one per attempt to play anything in amarok.
> 
> Best regards
> 	Alex

Not sure but this looks like an issue with the phonon backend. What
backend have you got configured? try compiling another one and see if
you have the same issues.

A quick google brings up this, seems old though.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-880043-start-0.html

-- 

- Yohan Pereira

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference
between a mermaid and a seal.
                -- Mark Twain

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Alexander Puchmayr:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my 
> desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based 
> music/media player don't start playing music anymore. 
> I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting 
> any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine plays videos with 
> sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde), for example audacity 
> and xine, play mp3 files properly. 
> In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test sounds 
> properly.
>
> Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the same 
> time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have troubles 
> yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system?
>
> BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant:
> [21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2 
> sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000]
> one per attempt to play anything in amarok.
>
> Best regards
> 	Alex
>
>
> .
>
revdep-rebuilt may help you. And even if it doesn't, rebuild phonon.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

[Alexander Puchmayr]

Hi,

I remember to have accidently started amarok via ssh on my notebook (wrong 
console window), with DISPLAY on my desktop. This seems to have scrapped 
phonon-config and/or pulseaudio config on both systems. 
After having removed these files (.pulse/ and 
.kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc) on both systems, amarok played my music as 
expected.

Thanks to all who answered me.

Best Regards
	Alex





On Monday 16 September 2013, 13:37:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my
> desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based
> music/media player don't start playing music anymore.
> I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when
> starting any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine
> plays videos with sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde),
> for example audacity and xine, play mp3 files properly.
> In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test
> sounds properly.
> 
> Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the
> same time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have
> troubles yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system?
> 
> BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant:
> [21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2
> sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000]
> one per attempt to play anything in amarok.
> 
> Best regards
> 	Alex
> 
> 
> 
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