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On Thursday, 16 June 2022 17:10:38 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: |
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> > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for |
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> > > the |
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> > > next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's |
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> > > needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't helped. Hey-ho. Here we must go |
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> > > again... |
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> > What is certain is that the issue is caused by a file in your home |
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> > directory, since creating a new user fixes the problem. |
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> Having spent several hours at this today, I've concluded that the problem is |
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> caused by the Startpage add-on to Firefox. Specifically, startpage 1.3 and |
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> Firefox 71.10. Early in the stepwise setting everything up, I started |
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91.10. |
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> Firefox, set its typefaces and so on, then installed Startpage. The sound |
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> system stopped working instantly. I removed Startpage and the sound came |
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> back. A reboot confirmed that no lasting damage had been done. So, I'm now |
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> using 'EU Startpage - Unofficial', which seems to working well so far. |
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> > What may help you to be more specific with this would be to list what |
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> > files were modified since the last time audio worked; for example, `find |
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> > $HOME -mtime 0` will show files modified in the last 24 hours |
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> > You might want to run this command on .config or .kde directories to see |
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> > what could have changed, although it's true that it might take a while |
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> > to pin point it... |
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> > Another option, since you mention that you re-created your user multiple |
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> > times, is to just delete specific folders, reboot, and try audio. Maybe |
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> > start with .config as that would be the most obvious culprit. If that |
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> > doesn't work, try .kde (not sure if that folder is in ~/ or ~/.config), |
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> > then other directories. |
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> I'll stick with the system I have for the moment, thanks. I'll also report |
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> the problem to the developers. |
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> > Also, did you check `dmesg` to see if there are any errors related to |
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> > the audio device/driver? Try `dmesg --level=err,warn` |
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> Thanks for your ideas, Julien. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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