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