No sound ( for one particular login )

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:03:12AM +1000, CB wrote:
>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'm glad I could help.

>> 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.

Well, the funny thing is that FireFox seems to still have support for
~/.phoenix in it (lsof revelas that). ~/.mozilla/firefox contains almost
nothing, while ~/.firefox seems to be as filled as ~/.phoenix. I'll have
to copy a few files around as well once I find the time to experiment
with this.

>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.

Yes, true. Some seem to relate to GNOME1 as well. It'd be really nice to
have some sort of clean-up tool would be cool :-)

/M

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