[SOLVED] Lost all sounds on 13.1 WM fluxbox

porphyry5 · 04-12-2011, 04:45 PM

I've lost all sound output. Still works in xp. As root, reran alsaconf, alsamixer and alsactl store. No effect. Run xmms and all is normal except no sound; it plays the file, shows its title, the visual display is active as usual.

Is there something I could have done that would mute all sound output?

frankbell · 04-12-2011, 07:02 PM

You might try booting to a live CD and seeing whether you can play media. If you can, that would indicate something's gone screwy with your software load.

Another test would be to create a new user and test whether the new user can play music. If so, something might have gone screwy in your user configuration files.

porphyry5 · 04-13-2011, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Another test would be to create a new user and test whether the new user can play music. If so, something might have gone screwy in your user configuration files.

I added a new user, but no luck, and root has no sounds either, so I guess its a corrupted configuration file. But the only thing I've done with music recently is a bash script to generate and play a random playlist. As this is my first real bash script, I might well have done something I shouldn't, but I don't see how, as neither of the files it references is a system file.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# generate a playlist of 50 randomly selected tunes from 2.n3u
e=`cat /home/g/2.n3u`	# read pseudo-playlist into $e
rm /home/g/rand.m3u	# delete previous playlist
limit=${e: -7:5}	# the highest selection number in 2.n3u
oamt=0
d=
FLOOR=10000	# corresponds to the lowest selection number in 2.n3u
while [ $oamt -lt 50 ]	# oamt controls generation of 50 tunes in rand.m3u
	do
		number=0	# set number so while loop executes at least once per cycle
		while [ "$number" -lt $FLOOR ]
  		    do
  			number=$RANDOM
  			let "number %= $limit"		# 10000 <= number < limit
  		    done
  	grep -m 1 " $number" /home/g/2.n3u | awk '{ print $1 >> "/home/g/rand.m3u" }'
  	oamt=$((oamt+1))
        done
xmms -p /home/g/rand.m3u &		# play rand.m3u
exit 0

porphyry5 · 04-13-2011, 11:41 AM

OK, I fixed the problem, and it ties directly to another question I was going to ask after settling this one. I had added these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Code:

su - g -c startx
firefox
xrvt
jedit
kwrite

Everything starts up just fine except for jedit. Yet when I put jedit in at the terminal, the program starts up quite happily.

So my next question was going to be, "Why does starting jedit work in a terminal, but not in rc.local?" It turns out that jedit in rc.local doesn't start that editor, instead it turns off all sounds for the entire system, for when I remove jedit everything works again.

So now my question has changed, "Does anyone know how I can start jedit automatically after rc.local has run?"