Description of problem: Rhythmbox is unable to play any sound files. How reproducible: Always on my computer Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start rhythmbox 2. Press play button Actual results: Rhythmbox selects the song, fetches the album cover. But there is no sound and track position indicator stays at 0.00. GUI still works, if I select other song there comes a red error mark on the first song, it says: Playback Error Internal data flow error. If I try to quit, the gui freezes, otherwise I'm still able to use rhythmbox GUI. Expected results: Rhythmbox selects a song and starts playing it. Track position indicator would advance and there would be sound. Additional info: At first when I installed Fedora 9 rhythmbox worked fine and played every file that was supported. But after one day when I watched a DVD using xine rhythmbox refuses to play any files. I've had this similar behaviour sometimes on Fedora 8, if I watched some youtube videos with sound on using flash, that time reboot usually helped (I think the pulseaudio was to blame). Now reboot doesn't help and I don't have flash even installed. Also Totem doesn't play any sounds. Xine and xine based players (for examble amarok) are able to play video and music files just fine. Also fedora system sound seems to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhythmbox-0.11.5-12.fc9.i386 pulseaudio-0.9.10-1.fc9.i386 amarok-1.4.9.1-3.fc9.i386
What's the output of "rpm -qa flash-plugin libflashsupport" ?
And could you please try running gstreamer-properties, and setting the default output to "autodetect".
Created attachment 307381 [details] Pulseaudio output 1 from /var/log/message
Created attachment 307382 [details] Pulseaudio output 2 from /var/log/message
There is no output from "rpm -qa flash-plugin libflashsupport", so they are not installed: [~]$ rpm -qa flash-plugin libflashsupport [~]$ Changing the output from gstreamer-properties from the default "Custom" to "Autodetect" didn't change anything, still no sound from rhythmbox and the track progress indicator stays at 0.00. Though when I pressed "Test"-button from gstreamer-properties I can hear the beep but it also outputs errors to terminal: *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused *** Is your sound server running? *** See: http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Troubleshooting And the testing: paplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav showed that for some reasong pulseaudio-server isn't running when I log in. I checked the /var/log/messages (see attachment 1 [details]), added myself to pulse-rt group, logged out and logged back in. There are still errors in /var/log/messages (see attachment 2 [details]), but now at least the pulseaudio server is started when I log in: [ ~]$ ps -ef | grep pulse user 5745 5742 0 18:28 ? 00:00:06 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog user 5749 5745 0 18:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper [~]$ And I can here the sound when running command: paplay /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav But still no sound in rhythmbox and track indicator stays at. And the GUI freezes when trying to quit.
Did you stop the console kit daemon by any chance?
And you actually need to change the output to "Autodetect" in the gnome-sound-properties (System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound). My apologies, wrong tool...
Haven't touched console kit daemon in anyway myself, but changing output to "Autodetect" in gnome-sound-properties fixed the problem, thank you very much!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 449268 ***