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I have a problem with amarok's xine engine. Up till now everything was fine (it worked just perfectly), however it suddnely stopped working. When I try to play anything, amarok just freezes. When I switch to gstreamer engine everything works fine. I've got no idea what have I messed up (I don't believe that it stopped working just by itself). I tried to uninstall amarok and associated packages + purge configuraton (excluding ones from my home directory) files and then reinstall it, but that didn't help. Is there any way to log what exactly is going on when I try to play a file?
Ok, a little update. I've noticed that some other applications fail to initialize sound (Quake 3 for example). So it seems to be a general sound issue, not only xine engine for amarok. However GStreamer engine works fine, also MPLayer plays OK. In syslog I found something like this:
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