Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash
On 15/01/12 08:44, � wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues
> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play
> any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its
> related).
>
> I found in /var/log/messages:
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to open cookie file '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file or
> directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed
> to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file
> or directory
> Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c:
> Cannot access autospawn lock.
>
> MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either.
> How can I fix it?
>
> Cheers,
> Grzes
>
> A crash report from Amarok:
<snipped>
You could maybe try phonon-backend-vlc instead of the xine backend.
Sorry, I don't run Sid so my experience probably won't translate.
Cheers
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