No sound ( for one particular login )

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:23:35AM +1000, CB wrote:
>One of my logins doesn't produce any sound. Symptoms: gnome sound
>events don't produce anything; launching gnome-volume-control gets the
>error 'Sorry, no mixer elements and/or devices found'; launching
>audacity gets the error 'Error initializing audio'.
>
>I can however create a new login, use that to log into gnome, and all
>the sound works fine.
>
>The login where sound fails has a home directory inherited from an
>earlier ubuntu installation, so I assume there is a config file in
>there that is screwing something up. Anyone any idea what to look for?

Is the user member of the audio group?

>Also, as re-use of home directories between installations seems to
>cause several such problems (cd burning is another one), does anyone
>have a list of which user config files and directories cannot be
>readily re-used?
>
>[ this points to a general way that linux, or more properly gnome, is
>really headed in the wrong direction. It used to be possible just to
>migrate /home directories across linux installations without problems.
>A huge advantage over Windows where you really have to start from
>scratch every re-install. Now though I seem to get all kinds of
>problems with gnome when I try this. I am routinely deleting all the
>gnome-related config files and directories when I use an old home
>directory in a new installation, but it seems daft and Windowzy to have
>to do this ]

I've never really experienced that. The only thing that sometimes
irritate me is that I don't know what I can safely delete. As an example
I have the following directories in ${HOME} that seem related to
FireFox:

 ~/.firefox
 ~/.phoenix
 ~/.mozilla/firefox

/M

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