[K12OSN] sound in Rhythmbox only works for one user

[Gideon Romm]

Petre-

Try logging in as that user and either open a terminal and run:
gstreamer-properties  (which will bring up a GUI and choose "esd" as the
audio sink)  OR I believe in Fedora the same GUI can be opened by going
to:  System -> Preferences -> Multimedia System Selector   (or some
such)

(They keep moving the menu around, so I have gotten accustomed to
knowing how to run the GUIs from a terminal window ;) )

In the future, you could do:  scp -r oldbox:/home/pam /home/
Be sure that all of the permissions and ownerships are preserved.  I
usually prefer to use rsync, because if the connection breaks while
transferring the files, you can pick up where you left off.

Cheers,

-Gideon

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 07:56 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> Thanks Gideon!  That worked...mostly.  The gconf-editor wasn't installed (should it have 
> been?) so yum was my friend.  After installing it and making the changes, sound on 
> Rhythmbox started working for all the users except one.  The one difference with this 
> user is that I copied all her $HOME files from our old 4.2.2 server to her home 
> directory on this new 5.0 server; she's the only one where I needed to do that.  I 
> suspect that some old setting/file was brought along that is interfering.  To copy the 
> files, I just used ran 'scp oldbox:/home/pam/* /home/pam/' on the new box.  This isn't 
> the best way because it seems to miss any hidden directories, e.g., .ssh/.  So, OTOH, if 
> I did bring along an interfering config file/directory, I'd expect it to be a hidden one 
> of which I don't think I got many, if any.  Any other ideas?  Thanks for your help.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Gideon Romm wrote:
> > Petre-
> > 
> > rhythmbox uses gstreamer.  if you are using "esd" do this:
> > 
> > 1.  log in as a user with "sudo" privileges and run "sudo gconf-editor"
> > OR  log in and "su" to root (NOTE:  "su" not "su -") and run
> > "gconf-editor"
> > 2.  Go to: system > gstreamer > 0.10 > default
> > 3.  change the audiosink value to:  "esdsink" and hit enter
> > 4.  right click on that field and select "Set as Mandatory"
> > 
> > Next time the user logs in, you should get sound from rhythmbox
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -Gadi
> > 
> > On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 16:00 -0500, Petre Scheie wrote:
> >> I got Rhythmbox playing sound on the clients for one user (me, not as root), but when 
> >> others try to play, say MP3 files, nothing happens when they click the Play button: no 
> >> sound, the timer indicator doesn't move, etc.  Perhaps a permissions issue somewhere? 
> >> It's not a permissions issue on the MP3 files because the users can play those just fine 
> >> through xmms.  Does Rhythmbox need a special rc file or directory or some such in the 
> >> users home directory which I might have but they're missing?
> >>
> >> Petre
> >>
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