On 04/02/2012 10:14 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:

Rebooting does it - resets the volume level to 1%.
While it /shouldn't/ matter, can you *untick* the options in kmix
related to saving/restoring the volumes and see if that helps?


Mixer -> Settings -> Configure KMix -> Uncheck restore volumes on login

Now the volume stays at 100%.

This resetting of config data appears to be an upstream problem that needs to be patched by distro packagers. See this coment from the MDV Cooker ML:

On 04/04/2012 06:07 PM, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
Hello

today I switched on my pc : kde config was ok (backgrounds, my apps shortcuts, icons, ...)

I updated some rpm (see the list below), rebooted, and on next login all my kde settings were reset to the default, as if I was a new user (lost taks bar settings, backgound, icon size/position, default rosa colors/icons; ...).

This is *really* tiring, I have the feeling each time some specific packages are updated you "have" to loose your config (in that case, I guess it could be xdg-user-dirs-gtk-0.8-11-mdv2011.0.i586, as I don't see any other desktop/kde related rpm in the ones I updated). I can't remember the number of times I had to recreate my kde's config from scratch in the last months...

Why does it have to be this way ? Why is the upgrade process not more respectful of the user's data ? (and don't tell me this is a cooker only issue, I saw some similar cases when going from one mandriva release to mdv 2011 and getting the same "results").

This is really sad, time consuming and less than motivating to remain a cooker user to keep on reporting bugs to improve the distrib. There should be a better balance between the breakage you can expect when running cooker and the integrity of the user's config/data.

Cooker always had it's "drawbacks" (for the benefit of having the most recent versions), but honnestly the overall quality has really lowered during the last year or so (and I write this as someone who runs several cooker machines since mandrake 6.0 in 1999, so I saw more than my share of updates/breakages).


The list of updated packaged that I last updated before the reset of my kde's config (obviously not all of them are responsible for it) :

[RPM] python-gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libvncserver0-0.9.8-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libgnome-menu3_0-3.2.0.1-3-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libboost_system1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libboost_signals1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libboost_thread1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libboost_regex1.49.0-1.49.0-1-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] python-gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-2-mdv2012.0.i586 removed
[RPM] libdirectfb1.4_5-1.4.13-4-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libgnome-menu3_0-3.2.0.1-2-mdv2012.0.i586 removed
[RPM] libdirectfb1.4_5-1.4.13-3-mdv2012.0.i586 removed
[RPM] libvncserver0-0.9.8-2-mdv2011.0.i586 removed
[RPM] libgirepository1.0_1-1.32.0-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libdirectfb-devel-1.4.13-4-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libSDL1.2_0-1.2.15-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] automake-1.11.4-1-mdv2012.0.noarch installed
[RPM] timezone-java-2012b-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] timezone-2012b-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] gobject-introspection-1.32.0-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed
[RPM] libSDL-devel-1.2.15-2-mdv2012.0.i586 installed



Nicolas




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