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sati

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 22

Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

The latest upgrade of pulseaudio  & libpulse packages (0.9.22-1) appears to have broken my KDE (4.5.3) configuration. KDM starts but upon attempting to login X (X Server 1.9.2) just crashes and then KDM reloads. Downgrading both of these packages appears to have restored everything and I can now login again. Not sure how or why this is happening but thought I should post something here in case anyone else is experiencing the same issues.

heftig

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 159

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Downgrading to what version?

sati

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 22

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Sorry for not mentioning...downgraded to the versions I had previously: pulseaudio & libpulse 0.9.21-15.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Please provide logs for X, KDE should not refuse to startup (especially since its not like you weren't using pulseaudio before this).

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heftig

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-19

Posts: 159

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Does the problem disappear after recompiling phonon and/or kdemultimedia-kmix?

sati

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 22

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Ok I reinstalled the pulseaudio & libpulse upgrades and rebuilt phonon-pulse & kdemultimedia-kmix-pulse against the new versions and it appears to have resolved the issue. I had originally inspected the logs of X & KDM but did not see any errors or information regarding why X would suddenly drop whilst logging in.

ilpianista

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 568

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Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

You shouldn't use phonon-pulse. official phonon package now provides pulseaudio support.

sati

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Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 22

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Ok thanks I have replaced with just phonon now. How about kdemultimedia-kmix? Does that support pulseaudio now or are we to use kdemultimedia-kmix-pulse?

mediaserf

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Registered: 2010-11-29

Posts: 11

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

I am having the same issue. The error from xession is:

ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

Reinstall libpulse

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0
/usr/lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 is owned by libpulse 0.9.22-1

mediaserf

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Registered: 2010-11-29

Posts: 11

Re: Latest pulseaudio upgrade prevents kde from starting.

That worked! Thanks flamelab!