I tried with totem-gstreamer out of curiosity. The symptoms are the same, but this time I get a proper error dialog that says:
"Totem could not startup Could not establish connection to sound server" and I get this in the terminal: $ totem ALSA lib confmisc.c:1107:(snd_func_refer) Unable to find definition 'defaults.pcm.card' ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib confmisc.c:242:(snd_func_getenv) error evaluating default ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_getenv returned error: No such file or directory ALSA lib conf.c:3951:(snd_config_expand) Args evaluate error: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal => Major Priority: None => High -- [Dapper] Won't start if Rhythmbox is running https://launchpad.net/bugs/44462 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs