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johngcarlsson 10-10-2004 02:04 PM

Randomly plays music
 
Hi,
I have MDK 10 running KDE, and every so often my computer will randomly play music from the start of a couple of .avi files I have lying around. Doesn't open mplayer or anything, the music just starts playing. I can't figure out how to stop it, so I just hit 'mute.' Has anybody ever seen this before? It's very strange.
Thanks!

sether 10-10-2004 02:46 PM

wow, that's weird.

post the output of "top" when it happens again, because something has to be running those files. what other apps are you running when it happens?

johngcarlsson 10-11-2004 01:35 PM

Hi,
Here is the output of top:

1773 root 15 0 85216 16m 69m S 3.0 3.8 48:35.46 X
2991 johngcar 15 0 27528 15m 25m S 1.0 3.5 0:00.45 kdeinit
2302 johngcar 15 0 27572 16m 25m S 0.3 3.7 0:03.18 kdeinit
2317 johngcar 15 0 64632 24m 17m S 0.3 5.6 0:04.61 artsd
2448 johngcar 15 0 40052 29m 30m S 0.3 6.8 0:29.53 kdeinit
2959 johngcar 16 0 26668 14m 24m S 0.3 3.4 0:00.45 konsole
3024 johngcar 16 0 2172 1036 1964 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.07 top
1 root 16 0 1580 516 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:03.28 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 events/0
4 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kblockd/0
5 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kapmd
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
9 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
11 root 17 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
15 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kjournald
129 root 18 0 2164 1276 1588 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.24 devfsd
255 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd

and i noticed that 'artsd' disappeared after the music played.

johngcarlsson 10-11-2004 01:36 PM

Oh, and I forgot to add, I'm just running Konqueror and Gaim, maybe KWrite and a couple of console windows. I'm not sure if this is useful information, but the machine only plays stuff that I played through Totem Media Player, not GMplayer. I don't like Totem anyway as it has given me a few problems in the past which I am unable to reconcile.

johngcarlsson 12-05-2004 05:28 PM

Hello,
So, I still have this problem and I have just been using my machine on 'mute' to stop it. When sounds start randomly playing, a simple
killall artsd
will stop it, so the problem is that 'artsd' just starts randomly. Does anybody have any idea what might be starting this?
Thanks!


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