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