[K12OSN] sound in Rhythmbox only works for one user

[Peter Scheie]

Thanks Gadi.  Using the gstreamer-properties test, it failed for that 
user.  So I renamed her ,gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2 and 
.gnome2_private directories to something different, and then logged in 
as her, letting gnome create new versions of those directories, and it 
worked.  So, one of those had something bad in them.

Petre

Gideon Romm wrote:
> 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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