Neal Becker wrote:
Neal Becker wrote:
> Don't know if it's kde related. This morning a large update, including
> kernel. Now kde tells me:
>
> "The audio playback device doesn't work, falling back to internal..."
>
> A look at system settings/multimedia tells me that it wants to remove
> pulseaudio.
>
> My log says:
>
> Apr 13 06:19:21 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread
> 2068 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority
> at nice level -11.
> Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread
> 2319 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority
> 5. Apr 13 06:19:23 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread
> 2322 of process 2068 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' RT at priority
> 5. Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost rtkit-daemon[2070]: Sucessfully made thread
> 2362 of process 2362 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) owned by '500' high priority
> at nice level -11.
> Apr 13 06:19:25 localhost pulseaudio[2362]: pid.c: Daemon already
> running.
>
> ps aux | grep pulse
> nbecker 2068 0.1 0.2 449432 5964 ? S<sl 06:19 0:00
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
> nbecker 2359 0.0 0.1 92204 3124 ? S 06:19 0:00
> /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
>
> Any ideas?
This looks suspicious:
Apr 13 06:09:02 Updated: phonon-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64
Apr 13 06:09:03 Updated: phonon-backend-xine-4.4.0-3.fc12.x86_64
I found if I do
pulseaudio -k
pulseaudio -D
then pulseaudio is back in settings/multimedia and seems to work. Must be
some startup problem.