No sound in Amarok since upgrade - SOLVED

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

I think I have seen it described somewhere that some upgrade kubuntu
scenarios ends up installing pulseaudio which is not intended.
On my laptop, "sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio*" did the trick

- Nikolaj

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Kevin B. O'Brien <zwilnik at zwilnik.com> wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>>
>>> I have used Amarok as my "jukebox" for a couple of years, but since
>>> upgrading to Kubuntu Jaunty with KDE 4 and Amarok 2, I get no sound. I
>>> have sound in Miro and some other movie apps, so it is not a hardware
>>> problem. There is a clue that it is due to Pulse Audio lingering on
>>> somehow, but I don't know how to get rid of the last traces if that is
>>> the case.
>>>
>>
>> Try searching your package list for a phonon-pulseaudio package (which
>> may not be named exactly that) and remove it.
>>
>> Then try rebooting.  Seriously, I've heard it helps with these crazy
>> pulseaudio problems
> After trying everything else, including re-installing the OS, I decided
> to do a scorched-earth approach. I used the locate command to find every
> file on my hard drive that had "pulse" in the name, and deleted the lot
> of them. Then I re-booted, and now Amarok works.
>
> Regards,
>
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