On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:48:05 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > After the switch to elogind yesterday, chronyd now won't run. It complains > > "Could not get user/group of ntp." I remerged chrony with USE=-ntp, but it > > didn't help. I know that several people here use chrony, so what is your > > experience? > > > > Secondly, this morning when I started firefox to listen to BBC Radio 3, as > > usual, I had no sound. Then I remembered that alsa-utils was unmerged > > during the switch to elogind yesterday, so I remerged it and ran > > alsamixer to unmute the master. Still no sound. > > > > This box has two sound devices: > > > > # lspci | grep Audio > > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation C610/X99 series chipset HD Audio > > Controller (rev 05) > > 01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere > > HDMI > > Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] > > > > The first of those is the one I use; the AMD device is part of the VGA > > card and not used. I'd have to get myself some kind of HDMI cable to > > split the sound out if I wanted to use it. > > > > Should I assume that firefox is trying to use the AMD device? In that > > case, how do I redirect it? There's no sound configuration panel under > > multimedia in KDE system settings; only cddb. > > I use chrony here and haven't ran into that problem, yet. Give me some > time tho. ;-)
I added version 3.5 to my keywords file and remerged. It now runs fine. It must have been failing for some time, because when it did start it reported a time error of 14s. Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/700094#c9 refers. > As to the sound problem, I'd try logging out of the GUI, restarting > elogind or rebooting, and then trying again. One thing I've noticed > about elogind, if it or something it depends on triggers the need for a > restart, it causes some weird problems. Once restarted, everything > works as it should. Still chasing this one. So far I've reverted to last Sunday's backup and I'm putting in a few updates at a time to isolate the guilty party. I forgot to say before that I don't get the beep from KDE shutting down either. -- Regards, Peter.
