Hi, I remember to have accidently started amarok via ssh on my notebook (wrong console window), with DISPLAY on my desktop. This seems to have scrapped phonon-config and/or pulseaudio config on both systems. After having removed these files (.pulse/ and .kde4/share/config/phonondevicesrc) on both systems, amarok played my music as expected.
Thanks to all who answered me. Best Regards Alex On Monday 16 September 2013, 13:37:37 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my > desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based > music/media player don't start playing music anymore. > I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when > starting any kind of music file (mp3/flac/wma). But, strangly, kaffeine > plays videos with sound without a problem. Also, other programs (non-kde), > for example audacity and xine, play mp3 files properly. > In kde's system settings, the phonon configuration dialog play its test > sounds properly. > > Any ideas? Any idea why it affects two different systems pretty much at the > same time? Any idea why it worked yesterday morning and started to have > troubles yesterday evening, without having changed anything in the system? > > BTW: dmesg shows a lot of lines that might be relevant: > [21219.855176] traps: alsa-sink[12956] general protection ip:7f08486569f2 > sp:7f083fff6b70 error:0 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f0848600000+ea000] > one per attempt to play anything in amarok. > > Best regards > Alex > > > > !DSPAM:506,5237149d673921892913720!