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On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:21:51 BST Julien Roy wrote: |
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> A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem: |
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Thanks for you help. |
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> - Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to |
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> this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide", |
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The evidence points squarely away from the hardware. I can't see this being |
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anything other than a misconfiguration or a coding error. |
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> - Install a different DE (or perhaps a WM would be faster), to see |
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> whether this is KDE-related, or system wide, |
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I may do that. |
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> - Take a copy/backup/snapshot of your new user account before the issue |
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> occurs, and compare it (specifically the config files) to the account |
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> after the issue appears. This may help you find out if KDE is doing |
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> something fishy with a config file somewhere that triggers the problem. |
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> Alternatively, you could also revert to the snapshot and see if that |
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> fixes the problem. If so, then you might want to take more granular |
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> snapshots (specific folders or files), and restore specific folders as |
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> the issue appears, to figure out where exactly the problem is located. |
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I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the |
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next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's needed, |
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now that a coarse grain hasn't helped. Hey-ho. Here we must go again... |
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> As for the drive that wants to mount itself, I don't think it is related |
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> to this audio problem, but KDE (and DEs in general) have settings to |
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> allow mounting devices (automatically) through the DE itself rather than |
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> fstab, which explains why the noauto setting is being ignored : check |
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> the settings in KDE to see if it's setup to auto mount devices. |
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Setting all devices to no-automount hasn't helped. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |