Re: Backup backup backup -- sound problem SOLVED using a backup

[Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com>]

Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> I was playing a music track while using XBMC when suddenly the sound 
> stopped. I tried everything I could to restore sound. None of my 
> multimedia programs produced sound. Even speaker-test produced nothing.
>
> I tried rebooting, purge xbmc from the system: nothing.
>
> Well, this morning, I unpacked my latest backup of my directory tree 
> into /var/tmp and issued the command
>     diff -q -u -r /home/sian /var/tmp/home/sian >/tmp/sian.diff
> The command ran for a few seconds. Looking at /tmp/sian.diff showed no 
> obvious reason why I no longer had sound.
>
> So, I logged out of KDE4 Plasma Desktop, keyed Ctrl-Alt-F1 and, at the 
> VT, logged in as root. Then I issued the commands
>     init 3                # that stopped kdm and X
>     rm -rf /home/sian     # deleted all my files
>     rm -rf /var/tmp/home  # deleted the files I had put into /var/tmp
>     tar -xjf /opt/cdrw/bd21319-04-25/Phoenicia.sian.tar.bz2 --directory /
> # That tar command extracted all the files from the backup and put them 
> # into their proper places (each file was preceded by home/sian because 
> # tar removes the initial /
> I then did the usual sid upgrade commands:
>     apt-get update
>     apt-get dist-upgrade
>     reboot
> After the reboot, I logged in and ran speaker-test:
>     speaker-test -tsine -c2
> Sound from both speakers!
>     played some music using Deadbeef (Audio player)
>
> So there you are: a backup saved my bacon.
> 

Without knowing the cause of the original problem one 
cannot really call it "solved" though...
Or am I missing something?

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