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On 16/09/13 at 01:37pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: |
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> Hi there, |
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> I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my |
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> desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based |
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> music/media player don't start playing music anymore. |
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> I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting |
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> any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine plays videos with |
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> sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde), for example audacity |
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> and xine, play mp3 files properly. |
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> In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test sounds |
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> properly. |
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> Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the same |
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> time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have troubles |
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> yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system? |
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> BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant: |
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> [21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2 |
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> sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000] |
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> one per attempt to play anything in amarok. |
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> Best regards |
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> Alex |
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Not sure but this looks like an issue with the phonon backend. What |
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backend have you got configured? try compiling another one and see if |
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you have the same issues. |
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A quick google brings up this, seems old though. |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-880043-start-0.html |
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