Sian Mountbatten <poenik...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > I was playing a music track while using XBMC when suddenly the sound > stopped. I tried everything I could to restore sound. None of my > multimedia programs produced sound. Even speaker-test produced nothing. > > I tried rebooting, purge xbmc from the system: nothing. > > Well, this morning, I unpacked my latest backup of my directory tree > into /var/tmp and issued the command > diff -q -u -r /home/sian /var/tmp/home/sian >/tmp/sian.diff > The command ran for a few seconds. Looking at /tmp/sian.diff showed no > obvious reason why I no longer had sound. > > So, I logged out of KDE4 Plasma Desktop, keyed Ctrl-Alt-F1 and, at the > VT, logged in as root. Then I issued the commands > init 3 # that stopped kdm and X > rm -rf /home/sian # deleted all my files > rm -rf /var/tmp/home # deleted the files I had put into /var/tmp > tar -xjf /opt/cdrw/bd21319-04-25/Phoenicia.sian.tar.bz2 --directory / > # That tar command extracted all the files from the backup and put them > # into their proper places (each file was preceded by home/sian because > # tar removes the initial / > I then did the usual sid upgrade commands: > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > reboot > After the reboot, I logged in and ran speaker-test: > speaker-test -tsine -c2 > Sound from both speakers! > played some music using Deadbeef (Audio player) > > So there you are: a backup saved my bacon. >
Without knowing the cause of the original problem one cannot really call it "solved" though... Or am I missing something? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120426145447.GA12153@radhesyama
