Hello,
A few suggestions to pin point the source of your problem:- Try with a different audio device to test if the issue is localized to this USB dongle, or if it is "system wide",
- Install a different DE (or perhaps a WM would be faster), to see whether this is KDE-related, or system wide,
- Take a copy/backup/snapshot of your new user account before the issue occurs, and compare it (specifically the config files) to the account after the issue appears. This may help you find out if KDE is doing something fishy with a config file somewhere that triggers the problem. Alternatively, you could also revert to the snapshot and see if that fixes the problem. If so, then you might want to take more granular snapshots (specific folders or files), and restore specific folders as the issue appears, to figure out where exactly the problem is located.
As for the drive that wants to mount itself, I don't think it is related to this audio problem, but KDE (and DEs in general) have settings to allow mounting devices (automatically) through the DE itself rather than fstab, which explains why the noauto setting is being ignored : check the settings in KDE to see if it's setup to auto mount devices.
Regards On 6/14/22 22:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list, I thought it was time to start a fresh thread, so here it is. I still have no working sound. I keep thinking I've fixed the problem, only to be proved wrong at the next reboot. The hardware is a USB dongle with a Unitek Y-247A chipset and I'm using an ordinary 3.5mm wired connection. The problem seems to be in my user account, because I can create a new user, then adjust control panel values to suit, logging out and in after each change. The sound keeps operating as it should - until I reboot, and then it's dead. By 'dead' I mean (a) it's silent, and (b) when I click the control panel button to test a speaker, the icon changes colour to show it's working, but it just hangs and never comes back. This reminds me of another problem, in which Konsole windows are not always restored after a login. This has still not been fixed; two bugs refer: 1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=819459 2. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445862 Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - but that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot attached.) What can possibly live under /home/prh and cause all this disruption? I might suspect I'd been hacked, but I've rebuilt a new system several times, and I've lost count of the times I've thrown away my user account and started again.
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