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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Sound muted at startup after installing latest test updates | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 | Reporter: | Christian Boltz <suse-beta> |
| Component: | Sound | Assignee: | Scott Reeves <sreeves> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | tiwai |
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.1 | ||
| Whiteboard: | maint:released:11.1:26797 maint:released:sle11:26798 | ||
| Found By: | Beta-Customer | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Christian Boltz
2009-07-08 22:13:52 UTC
All changes look irrelevant... Try to boot in runlevel 3 (pass a boot option "3"), then log in to linux console without X, e.g. as root. Check alsamixer whether it's really needed. If yes, try to unmute, then reboot again in runlevel 3. Is the sound still muted? After checking this, boot in runlevel 5. Is the mixer status different from the one in runlevel 3? Also, are you using pulseaudio? There seems a problem with PA and KDE backend. (In reply to comment #1) > Try to boot in runlevel 3 (pass a boot option "3") Not muted. > After checking this, boot in runlevel 5. Not muted (while displaying the KDM login screen). After logging in to KDE3, the sound is muted again. > Also, are you using pulseaudio? There seems a problem with PA and KDE backend. # ps aux |grep -i pulse cb 5691 0.0 0.3 90756 3704 ? Ssl 12:28 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start Looks like I do use it (but not intentionally ;-) - at least it is running. Could you try the following (just for testing)?
# setup-pulseaudio --disable
and disable the sound server in KDE control center. This should avoid to start pulseaudio, I suppose.
If it's not about PA, the rest is kmix...
Disabling pulseaudio as described did not help (pulseaudio still running after reboot, sound muted again).
cd /usr/bin && mv pulseaudio pulseaudio_AWAY helped ;-)
I just verified that it is really caused by pulseaudio by running it manually in a konsole window. The sound was muted instantly, and I got this on stdout:
W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not
allowed by policy.
FYI: I just got the same behaviour on a totally different system. The only common thing is that both are laptops and both are running openSUSE 11.1 with all updates installed. "old" system: Acer TravelMate 803, 32 bit, KDE 3, 11.1 + test updates "new" system: Dell Vostro 1710, 64bit, KDE 4, 11.1 + official updates Renaming /usr/bin/pulseaudio solves the problem on both systems. Scott, could you check this issue? I've got many other similar reports, and this really seems related with PA. I wanted to do a fresh installation anyway, therefore I installed the updates step by step (and did reboots in between to check if sound is muted or not. I installed all patches except "pulseaudio: Collective fixes" - sound not muted. I also installed the updated libpulse* and pulseaudio-utils packages from the pulseaudio patch - sound still _not muted_. After updating the remaining package pulseaudio with its auto-selected dependencies pulseaudio-esound-compat, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth, pulseaudio-module-jack, pulseaudio-module-lirc, pulseaudio-module-x11, pulseaudio-module-zeroconf (+ libpulsecore4, pulseaudio-lang which are not listed in the patch view), sound is muted at startup. This means one of these packages is responsible for muting the sound. I hope this helps you to nail down the problem ;-) Thanks for tracking this. The result is interesting! Could you try to uninstall pulseaudio-esound-compat and pulseaudio-module-* packages again, and check that the mute problem doesn't occur? I just want to be sure that this doesn't come from any config file updates or so. Then could you figure out which one is affecting, by simply installing one after one? My bet is pulseaudio-module-x11. BTW, libpulsecore4 is integrated into pulseaudio.rpm itself now, so there shouldn't be any extra package. Please check it to be sure, too. Could you check the updated packages in bug 513023? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513023#c3 Interestingly the problem magically fixed itsself on my new laptop, so I can't test it there :-/ (Not sure why, since I installed lots of packages and did some configuration as well.) I hope I can still reproduce the bug on the old laptop and will test the updated packages there in the next days. Good news: I could reproduce the bug on my old laptop _and_ the new packages fix the problem. To be exact: Sound was still/again muted at the first reboot after installing the test packages from bug 513023 - but this was the last time. I unmuted the sound as usual, and all following reboots did not mute the sound again :-) good - looks like the updated alsasound script (that stops pulse then mutes to avoid clicks) solves this issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 513023 *** Update released for: alsa, alsa-debuginfo, alsa-debugsource, alsa-devel, alsa-docs, libasound2 Products: openSUSE 11.1 (debug, i586, ppc, ppc64, x86_64) Update released for: alsa, alsa-debuginfo, alsa-debugsource, alsa-devel, alsa-docs, libasound2, libasound2-32bit, libasound2-x86 Products: SLE-DEBUGINFO 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64) SLE-DESKTOP 11 (i386, x86_64) SLE-SDK 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64) SLE-SERVER 11 (i386, ia64, ppc64, s390x, x86_64) |