Bug#470301: neverball: doesn't start if not using arts/kde

[Eddy Petrișor]

reassign 470301 pulseaudio
#breaks (quite) unrelated software
severity 470301 serious
tags 470301 =
retitle 470301 neverball doesn't start with pulseaudio enabled (no kde)
thanks

On 11/03/2008, Alexander Schmehl <tolimar at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 470301 +unreproducible
>  tags 470301 +moreinfo
>  severity 470301 important
>  thanks
>
>
>  Hi Eddy!

Hello,



> alex at annuminas:~$ LC_ALL=C ls .kde
>  ls: .kde: No such file or directory
>
>  No, haven't got that.  Still works.
>
>  Sorry, can't reproduce this bug, but I was using 1.4.0-4.  Perhaps that
>  problem got solved somehow in the meantime?  Would it be possible for
>  you to check, if the problems still exists in lenny? (Can't check the
>  stable version myself right now.)


I tried to see if the bug still reproduces with the new neverball,
after Alexander and others said that they couldn't reproduce the bug
with the new version of neverball.

I backported the 1.4.0-4 version to etch and tried it again. The bug
was still there.

Then I suspected pulseaudio, which proved to be the culprit (the first
number in the prompt is the exist status of the previous command):

0 eddy at twix ~ $ neverball
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Creating link /home/eddy/.kde/socket-twix.
can't create mcop directory
1 eddy at twix ~ $ killall pulseaudio
0 eddy at twix ~ $ neverball
0 eddy at twix ~ $

I am a member of the usual pulse groups:

0 eddy at twix ~ $ groups eddy
eddy : eddy adm dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev staff users
powerdev fuse debpool pulse pulse-access pulse-rt packages

My pulseaudio config is attached. Nothing is enabled in client.conf.
Ditto for daemon.conf.

/etc/default/pulseaudio has:

PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=0
and
DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0

-- 
Regards,
EddyP
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