I upgraded the timidity-daemon package.
I suspect it ran
/var/lib/dpkg/info/timidity-daemon.postinst
Line 48 appears to me to add
the SERVER_GROUP "timidity"
to
the "audio" group.
The result?
No sound!
Not even the shrill, bowel constricting voices of
Gilbert Gottfried and my ex (who, to the best of my
knowledge, have never been seen together in the
same room....)
;-)
Running
$ pavucontrol
revealed pulseaudio saw only a "dummy" output
device instead of my sound card.
Something like
$ fuser /dev/snd/*
revealed something like the PID of timidity,
indicating the later had pre-emptively grabbed my
sound card.
I temporarily fixed sound by doing
root$ /etc/init.d/timidity stop
I tested if sound would survive rebooting by
1.) editing
/etc/group
and manually deleting
",timidity"
from the end of the "audio:*" line.
2.) and rebooting.
I'm happy to report sound kept working.
Humble suggestion to our timid-ity overlords:
Fixing timidity-daemon now might avoid problems
later, like many users
1.) loosing all sound,
2.) eventually finding this bug report,
3.) getting madder that it hasn't been fixed yet
and
4.) complaining loudly.
I'll trust you to proceed as you see fit.
So,
Kingsley
--
Time is the fire in which we all burn.
