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Nitro_146 Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 7:33 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Sound not working in some application |
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Hi,
I noticed recently that the sound is not working anymore in some applications.
At least with totem and kaffeine
The sound works well with mplayer for example
I googled for my problem, but I have no clue.
Can anyone point me things to check, as I don't know where to look at.
Thanks _________________ Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware
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audiodef Watchman
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Nitro_146 Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answer.
Yes, some other programs works, such as mplayer and youtube movies in firefox.
The sound I am tying to play is a .wav file (from an phone answering machine) and also the DVB TV in kaffeine.
Here are the result when using CLI
Code: | $ totem /usr/share/sounds/login.wav
** (totem:8887): WARNING **: chapters: failed to load CMML file file:///usr/share/sounds/login.cmml: Erreur à l'ouverture du fichier : Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
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Code: | $ kaffeine /usr/share/sounds/login.wav
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kaffeine(8927) DvbManager::loadDeviceManager: using built-in dvb device manager
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/gcalctool.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Actions in "/usr/share/applications/stellarium.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/celestia.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/celestia.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/avidemux2-gtk.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/avidemux2-gtk.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/usr/share/applications/Kino.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-hlp.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-xml.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpg.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-wri.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpe.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-rtf.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-png.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpeg.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jfif.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-html.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-ini.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-txt.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-htm.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-gif.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-hlp.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-xml.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpg.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-wri.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpe.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-rtf.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-png.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jpeg.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-jfif.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-html.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-ini.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-txt.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-htm.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/home/pierre/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-gif.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(8948) parseLayoutNode: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
input_bluray: (bluray_class_get_instance:1446) bluray_class_get_instance
input_bluray: (bluray_class_get_instance:1446) bluray_class_get_instance
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Nitro_146 Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I tried to re-emerge kaffeine, as well as totem.
The sound in both programs stopped to work after a huge emerge when I came back from hollidays. 7 weeks of updates.
I will be hard to find where it come from.
What's the relation between Kafffeine and Totem ? Kaffeine is from KDE and I think Totem comes from Gnome...
How do they connect to the sound system, using ALSA, or other program ? _________________ Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware |
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Nitro_146 Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Problem solved !
Totem and Kaffeine use pulseaudio, mplayer and firefox flash plugin does (apparently) not.
I read the pulseaudio wiki page http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio and found that the sound device was locked by some program
Code: | # fuser /dev/snd/*
/dev/snd/controlC0: 4640 4889
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: 4640m
/dev/snd/seq: 4640
/dev/snd/timer: 4640
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4640 was timidity. Once disabled, both application worked again.
The question is now, why timidity suddenly locked the device after the last system and world update... _________________ Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware |
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audiodef Watchman
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to avoid pulseaudio, as it creates issues for ALSA, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't work.
To avoid those huge and therefore troublesome updates, don't put it off for longer than once per month. I do updates on all seven Gentoo machines I manage exactly once per month, and when I do, I pipe the --pretend output of both emerge -vuDN world and depclean to log files. That way, when something breaks, I have an easy to find/read log and can roll back any culprits. It's saved me a lot of grief more than once! _________________ decibel Linux: https://decibellinux.org
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Nitro_146 Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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I use to check for updates every 2 or 3 days usually.
But that time, I was away from home most of the summer... _________________ Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware |
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