Re: Crash of Phonon (SOLVED)

[lobster]

Hi

When i open Configure your Desktop and Miultimedia, clic on Phonon to open it up, than crashed!
I just reinstalled MyLiveCd (own ) make last June 2012 and it worked fine.
After the Upgrade 4.8.3 happens not work.
The reason was to fine out also why when i start KDE have no login sound.

Thank you for your help!

[Just17]

Do you still have the fault present on an install?

[muungwana]

open the terminal, type "systemsettings" and then press "enter" to startup "systemsettings" and then go to that location and report the output on the terminal when it crash.

[lobster]

Do you still have the fault present on an install?

after the install of MyLiveCd (from June 2012) everything worked fine, no system problems, no audio (Phonon) problems, just fine.

[lobster]

open the terminal, type "systemsettings" and then press "enter" to startup "systemsettings" and then go to that location and report the output on the terminal when it crash.

here the Terminal output::

QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
systemsettings(31116) SettingsBase::initApplication: Added  "GRUB Editor"
[rudy@localhost ~]$ [0x925fffc] main services discovery error: no suitable services discovery module
systemsettings: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_vlc.so: undefined symbol: libvlc_audio_filter_list_g


just to say, the with crash is ment the close of Configure your Desktop, but i do have sound and can watch videos and so on.

[muungwana]

go to synaptic and then uninstall "phonon-vlc".

This package need to be rebuild and it is the source of your problem

[lobster]

go to synaptic and then uninstall "phonon-vlc".

This package need to be rebuild and it is the source of your problem

it's working again, however probably i do have to reboot, now i don't have sound and doing alsaconf reports no soundcard

[muungwana]

there is a thread here i cant seem to nolonger find where a person had the same problem and removing phonon-vlc solved it without causing other problems.

Try to install "phonon-gstreamer" and see if it will correct whatever void removing "phonon-vlc" created.

[lobster]

there is a thread here i cant seem to nolonger find where a person had the same problem and removing phonon-vlc solved it without causing other problems.

Try to install "phonon-gstreamer" and see if it will correct whatever void removing "phonon-vlc" created.

i have to report back successful working sound, however still after rebooting twice there is no start or login sound, like it's use to be!
Also some video players like KMPlayer, SMPöayer,UMPlayer, but VLC Player works fine.

[Just17]

Do you still have the fault present on an install?

after the install of MyLiveCd (from June 2012) everything worked fine, no system problems, no audio (Phonon) problems, just fine.

If there are no problems then it is impossible to find what was wrong with the previous install 

[muungwana]

the problem with sound you now have could be because kde is still configured to use "phonon-vlc" and it cant find it because you removed it.

go to phonon section is "systemsettings" and configure it to use "phonon-gstreamer". Do that after you have installed "phonon-gstreamer"

[lobster]

the problem with sound you now have could be because kde is still configured to use "phonon-vlc" and it cant find it because you removed it.

go to phonon section is "systemsettings" and configure it to use "phonon-gstreamer". Do that after you have installed "phonon-gstreamer"

i did right before and in systemsettings i change gstreamer to be "backend" instead of xine that was before, that had fixed the problem with the Video Players, but still the login sound isn't working!
Where is this setup located?

[muungwana]

ok,
so you already have kde configured to use gstreamer.

The problem could then be on the playback device configured to be used to play log in sounds.

At the dialog window that allow you to change phonon backends, click the "device preference" tab and then click "audio playback" on the lower left and you will see a list of audio devices on your lower right.

click the first entry on the right and then click the "play" button. Do you hear sound? If no, try another one on the list and move up to the top the one that can play sound

Do the same for "notification","audio" and "video" .

You are not getting sound probably because of them is configured to use a non working audio playback device

[Just17]

ok,
so you already have kde configured to use gstreamer.

The problem could then be on the playback device configured to be used to play log in sounds.

At the dialog window that allow you to change phonon backends, click the "device preference" tab and then click "audio playback" on the lower left and you will see a list of audio devices on your lower right.

click the first entry on the right and then click the "play" button. Do you hear sound? If no, try another one on the list and move up to the top the one that can play sound

Do the same for "notification","audio" and "video" .

You are not getting sound probably because of them is configured to use a non working audio playback device

If you do that with one successfully, you can apply those settings to all using the "Apply Device List to ..."  button at the bottom of the window.
Saves having to do them all separately 

[lobster]

ok,
so you already have kde configured to use gstreamer.

The problem could then be on the playback device configured to be used to play log in sounds.

At the dialog window that allow you to change phonon backends, click the "device preference" tab and then click "audio playback" on the lower left and you will see a list of audio devices on your lower right.

click the first entry on the right and then click the "play" button. Do you hear sound? If no, try another one on the list and move up to the top the one that can play sound

Do the same for "notification","audio" and "video" .

You are not getting sound probably because of them is configured to use a non working audio playback device

If you do that with one successfully, you can apply those settings to all using the "Apply Device List to ..."  button at the bottom of the window.
Saves having to do them all separately  

that's what i did, just should reboot to see if the login sound starts!