On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:07:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > Sharon, I'm serious now, I completely agree with you, a reboot is > something we should do in situations, when we aren't aware what to do. > > I sometimes reboot even when everything is fine and I'm sure I've > missed anything, just (in case) to check, if a reboot would break > something. > > +1 for your reply! > > However, to reboot usually is "neurotic" ;), but being neurotic > regarding to such issues doesn't harm anybody, it just takes a while > and will add a spin up cycle to the HDDs, assumed we're using HDDs. > > Ralf. And I'm serious, I genuinely don’t know what to do when my box loses sound. Its happened in just 20 minutes, whilst I was eating my tea, and I came back to find no sound at all. I tried restarting alsa, restarted mpd, neither of which worked, and I didn’t fancy killing the dbus-launch so I just had to reboot. What else could I have done please? Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 Registered Linux user 334501
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