I installed a bunch of security updates today from the main repo and all of the sudden my sound stopped woking. At boot up it states that HDA_ATI_SB could not start so it is using pulse audio instead. The thing is that when I go into kmix I just unmute “Master” and then it works. Weird… So for some reason now the system keeps putting Master on mute everytime I reboot.
Anyone have any ideas?
Im guessing it has something to do with the gstreamer update I installed because pidgin also no longer works.
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_ref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_unref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_ref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_unref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_ref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_unref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_ref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
(pidgin:5396): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_caps_unref: assertion `GST_CAPS_REFCOUNT_VALUE (caps) > 0’ failed
Pidgin 2.5.8 has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.
This is a bug in the software and has happened through
no fault of your own.
If you can reproduce the crash, please notify the developers
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Aborted
rpm -qa |grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.22-42.pm.2
gstreamer-0_10-schroedinger-1.0.5-42.pm.4
gstreamer-0_10-lang-0.10.23-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.10-3.22.1
phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10-4.3.1-4.1
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.23-42.pm.1
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.23-42.pm.1
gstreamer-utils-0.10.23-42.pm.1
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.22-42.pm.2
gstreamer-0_10-utils-0.10.23-42.pm.1
bump…sorry
Does your sound work when you unmute master volume?
Try running alsamixergui as root (do su first) and unmute “Master” (the gui looks kind of weird - it’s the two little kinda sorta speaker-looking things at the top of the volume slider… it’s white when it’s muted and green when it’s not). Then close it and reboot. See if that helps.