phonon with vlc crash after todays update

[sir_herrbatka]

So, I update my system and I see that suddenly my system is silent, with no system sounds. After a little of digging I found out that the reason behind it was phonon-vlc configuration. Attempting to launch phonon configuration ended with crash so I unistalled vlc-phonon. With gstreamer I have no crash but no sound either since it appears to try use PA server that is unistalled here.

The problem is related to update of phonon-vlc i think

[sir_herrbatka]

After installing Pulse Audio things still does not work.

[menotu]

After installing Pulse Audio things still does not work.

Just in case    did you do a full reboot after installing Pulse Audio

[sir_herrbatka]

well, i figured it out. Needed to use pulse-enable. Works now, both vlc and gsteramer. Had some other problems along the way but finally it works ok.

Anyway, Do I really need to run pulse audio?

[francesco bat]

There is no need to install or enable pulse.
I think it is a bug.
I changed from "Phonon" in beckend, and i selected Xine to priority up and i solved.
To need to get Xine-ui from synaptic 
Bye
Francesco bat

[Gerryman]

I was experiencing the same "Configure Your Desktop" crash. If I opened "Configure Your Desktop" > Multimedia, and clicked on Phonon, the window crashed. All I did was uninstall phonon-vlc, and now it does not crash.

I re-installed phonon-vlc and the window crashed.

[kaptain_zero]

I lost my start up and shut down audio, but VLC and other software still had sound. It happened after the update today.  I cheated and just restored a backup from earlier in the day. Hopefully the bug will be found, in the meantime I'll just avoid updating to the latest.

Regards

Christian

[sir_herrbatka]

@francesco bat

Can you play sound with phonon+xine without PA?

[francesco bat]

@francesco bat

Can you play sound with phonon+xine without PA?

PA, do you mean Pulse Audio ?
I have not Pulse Audio and setting xine instead of vlc. it works 
Bye
Francesco bat

[DLWood]

I lost my start up and shut down audio, but VLC and other software still had sound. It happened after the update today.  I cheated and just restored a backup from earlier in the day. Hopefully the bug will be found, in the meantime I'll just avoid updating to the latest.

Regards

Christian

Exactly the same problem here.  Rolled back to version 0.4.0-1 for "phonon-vlc" and things work like they used to.

[kaptain_zero]

Updated to KDE 4.8x and lost system sounds, rolled back phonon-vlc and all is normal again.

Regards

Christian

[kaptain_zero]

Update: After todays upgrades.. I can no longer force the previous version of phonon-vlc, after the fact. I had to restore an pre-upgrade image and do another upgrade but unchecking phonon-vlc, so it didn't upgrade. This keeps system sounds working on my computer.  Hopefully someone will look at that particular package and get it fixed.

Regards

Christian

[sir_herrbatka]

I'm afraid that now KDE officialy uses PA and it's actually working good so I suggest to install pulse audio.

[kaptain_zero]

Well, I installed Pulse Audio using task-pulse, rebooted and made sure everything was selected and enabled. Did a full update which included the dreaded phonon-vlc and the results were the same, system sounds broke again.

This time I had copied the folders 'phonon_backend' and 'phonon_platform' found in usr/lib/kde4/plugins/ to a safe place, so I just renamed the updated folders as old, and copied the previous folders back in and system sounds returned to normal. As Pulse Audio didn't do anything that I didn't have before, I uninstalled it and went back to what I was using to start. At least now I don't have to keep watching for phonon-vlc updating to the broken version, as synaptic thinks I have the latest version anyway. Still... I realize it will most likely break again down the road, but hopefully by then there will be a new distro disk so I can do a fresh install that will hopefully work.

Regards

Christian

[Just17]

I had the same situation .......  I uninstalled phonon-vlc as unneeded, using the KDE preferred backend of Gstreamer or the alternative Xine.