No sound ( for one particular login )

[CB]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 00:25 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> >The login where sound fails has a home directory inherited from an
> >earlier ubuntu installation, so I assume there is a config file in
> >there that is screwing something up. Anyone any idea what to look for?
> 
> Is the user member of the audio group?

No, it wasn't, and adding the user fixed it. It also alerted me to
fixing up group membership in general for that user, which fixed a slew
of other problems. Much improved now, so thank you.



> I've never really experienced that. The only thing that sometimes
> irritate me is that I don't know what I can safely delete. As an example
> I have the following directories in ${HOME} that seem related to
> FireFox:
> 
>  ~/.firefox
>  ~/.phoenix
>  ~/.mozilla/firefox
> 

On my new Warty installation, I don't have the .firefox dir. I think all
firefox stuff is now in ~/.mozilla/firefox. ~/.phoenix goes back to
before the phoenix->firefox name change. I suspect you can get rid
of .firefox and .phoenix. Try renaming them temporarily and delete if no
problems occur.

The dirs that seem to give me problems are ~/.gnome*,  ~/.dmrc,
~/.esd_auth. When I leave them intact between installations, they (not
sure exactly which from them) sometimes seem to badly stuff up the gnome
desktop. I now just delete them all and start afresh with my gnome
settings.