openSUSE News has mentioned that, with Build 0267 the Leap 42.3 testing has reached the “Release Candidate” phase.
<https://news.opensuse.org/2017/06/06/next-leap-42-3-snapshot-equates-to-release-candidate/>
This thread is for discussion.
Build 0270 (taken from /etc/YaST2/build).
Did a Network Install (CD-ROM ISO) into an Oracle VirtualBox VM – installation (KDE Desktop) executed without any issues – completed in about 1 hour with a 50 MBit/s DSL link – German Language installation – need to re-run the installation to re-check for any language/translation issues.
Amarok is still the Qt4/KDE4 version but, it ran without any issues.
If the login sound is activated, the Leap 42.2 behaviour of “no login sound” is still present – logout sound is OK though.
Sound in general seems to be OK (for a VM).
The Plymouth boot splash still has the (AMD only?) sometimes crash at boot-time behaviour (there’s an outstanding Leap 42.2 Bug Report).
Yes, I saw that. So when I installed build 0270, I was expecting this to be a release candidate. But it still says “Beta”.
I’m guessing that they just screwed up – forgot to remove the “Beta” part from what goes in “/etc/os-release”.
It is mostly doing fine. However, I am not able to install “calibre” – it gives a dependency problem when I try. I’ll note that there is already an open bug report on this, but I forgot to record the number.
I also noticed that the installer wanted to install an IMAP server. Something must be recommending that. I’m not sure why.
Yes, there hasn’t been a Qt5/KF5 release yet.
Not even the KDE4 based version 2.9.0 has been released even though it is in Beta since nearly 2 years…
https://amarok.kde.org/en/node/887
If the login sound is activated, the Leap 42.2 behaviour of “no login sound” is still present – logout sound is OK though.
Works fine here since about 2 years.
Check that the selected sound file actually exists though.
I think there was a problem with the defaults for a while, they still referred to the KDE4 versions that don’t exist any more.
Apropos KDE login sound:
The “no login sound” issue arose with Leap 42.2 late winter this year – I didn’t bother to raise a bug report – rather hoped that someone else would do so.
- It may be “yet another AMD platform issue” – possibly the folks with Intel platforms are not affected by this issue.
As I wrote, it works fine here, so I don’t think there’s a general problem. I would rather suspect a configuration problem.
Again, check that the configured sound file actually exists.
Does the test button in the settings module play the sound?
- It may be “yet another AMD platform issue” – possibly the folks with Intel platforms are not affected by this issue.
I am using AMD here.
And why should the CPU have any influence whether a login sound works or not?
Yes, the sound file exists (KDE login sound) and, the test button plays the sound.
AMD platform – the mainboard where the the AMD CPU is plugged in.
- I will be upgrading my AMD desktop (ASUS mainboard) to Leap 42.2 soon – maybe it’s a Lenovo-only issue . . .
And does it work if you select a different sound file?
Maybe post your ~/.config/plasma_workspace.notifyrc.
AMD platform – the mainboard where the the AMD CPU is plugged in.
Yes, I am using an AMD CPU:
$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 15
Model: 31
Model name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Stepping: 0
CPU MHz: 1000.000
CPU max MHz: 1800.0000
CPU min MHz: 1000.0000
BogoMIPS: 2199.76
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 512K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl extd_apicid lahf_lm 3dnowprefetch vmmcall
- I will be upgrading my AMD desktop (ASUS mainboard) to Leap 42.2 soon – maybe it’s a Lenovo-only issue . . .
TBH, I don’t see any relation to the particular hardware at all.
Unless sound would not be working in general of course.
And I also have no idea where you even get that idea from that there are “AMD platform issues” in the first place.
Just because the main kwin developer uses Intel graphics?
:-/
> cat ~/.config/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
[Event/Trash: emptied]
Action=Taskbar
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/beep]
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/exitkde]
Action=Sound
Execute=
Logfile=
Sound=/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-Out.ogg
TTS=
[Event/messageInformation]
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/startkde]
Action=Sound
Execute=
Logfile=
Sound=/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg
TTS=
>
> LANG=C lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
CPU family: 21
Model: 19
Model name: AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
Stepping: 1
CPU MHz: 1400.000
CPU max MHz: 2500.0000
CPU min MHz: 1400.0000
BogoMIPS: 4990.81
Virtualization: AMD-V
L1d cache: 16K
L1i cache: 64K
L2 cache: 2048K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb arat cpb hw_pstate npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold vmmcall bmi1
>
Ok, I don’t see anything obviously wrong there.
Just one thing:
/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg is from KDE4 (package kdebase4-runtime to be exact).
The Plasma5 equivalent would be /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg in the package oxygen5-sounds.
Shouldn’t cause a problem though as long as kdebase4-runtime is installed (which is the case on a default KDE installation, as we still install some KDE4 applications).
> file /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-Out.ogg /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-Out.ogg
/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 48000 Hz, ~192000 bps
/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-Out.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 48000 Hz, ~499821 bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
/usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 48000 Hz, ~192000 bps
/usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-Out.ogg: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 48000 Hz, ~499821 bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
> l /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-Out.ogg /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-Out.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244953 10. Okt 2016 /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48592 25. Okt 2016 /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-Out.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244953 18. Okt 2016 /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48592 18. Okt 2016 /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-Out.ogg
> diff /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg
>
Start sound works here but only the default not my selected one 
Yes it worked a bit then at some point only default even if my custom is set. And I do have a AMD CPU with NVIDIA GPU
That may indeed be the problem then.
I am using the default one here, i.e. my plasma_workspace.notifyrc doesn’t have that Sound= line at all.
So try to remove it (it should use Oxygen-Sys-Log-In-Short.ogg then, which is a shorter version of Oxygen-Sys-Log-In.ogg/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg ).
Hmmm removed ogg and now no startup sound
here is rc entry
[Event/startkde]
Action=Sound
Execute=
Logfile=
Sound=/home/gogalthorp/Sounds/STARTUP.ogg
TTS=
BTW missed that this is 42.3 thread still on 42.2
My sound plays in the event settings in Configure Desktop just not at log in
Confirmed.
With a Leap 42.2 plasma_workspace.notifyrc as follows and with Leap 42.3 similar, the login (default) sound happens.
> cat .config/plasma_workspace.notifyrc
[Event/Trash: emptied]
Action=Taskbar
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/beep]
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/exitkde]
Action=Sound
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/messageInformation]
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
[Event/startkde]
Action=Sound
Execute=
Logfile=
TTS=
>
What do you mean with “removed ogg”?
BTW missed that this is 42.3 thread still on 42.2
Yes, but dcurtisfra mentioned that he has this problem on 42.2 too since a while.
It’s likely not a regression in 42.3/Plasma 5.8.7 anyway (42.2 had/has 5.8.6).
So it’s indeed a problem with “custom” files only.
I can reproduce it in a standard Leap 42.2 VM (it works fine on my real system with Plasma 5.10.1).
This would work too btw:
Sound=KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg
(i.e. omit the /usr/share/sounds/, won’t work with other paths though of course)
So it seems to me that Plasma prepends /usr/share/sounds/ to the file name by mistake even if the full path is specified.
I will take a look.
Actually it seems to depend on the used phonon backend.
With vlc (that I use here), everything works fine.
The mentioned problem only occurs with gstreamer which is installed by default.
So it’s obviously an issue/bug in phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer…
Installing phonon4qt5-backend-vlc should “fix” it too.
I have yet to find out why it’s only broken with a full path though.
I removed/renamed the Oxygen-Sys-Log-In-Short.ogg as you suggested resulted in no sound even with my file set in plasma_workspace.notifyrc
Might try copying my file to /usr/share/sounds/
Maybe ownership all the /usr/share/sounds/ files are owned by root???
The file name doesn’t matter.
Apparently it doesn’t work if you specify an absolute path.
If you only specify the file name it should work, but then the file must be in /usr/share/sounds/ to be found.
Or install/use phonon4qt5-backend-vlc.
Might try copying my file to /usr/share/sounds/
Then it should work, if you omit the path (/usr/share/sounds/) and only specify the file name.
Maybe ownership all the /usr/share/sounds/ files are owned by root???
I very much doubt that.
Again, specifying something like /usr/share/sounds/Oxygen-Sys-Log-In-Short.ogg doesn’t work, Oxygen-Sys-Log-In-Short.ogg does work though.
The file is the same in both cases, with the same permissions and ownership.
Yes VLC back end works. Must be a problem with gstreamer… It did work initial (fresh install back when) then at some point stopped working. Was not a great deal I seldom reboot or logout. But nice to have the best startup sound in the world working 