[kdepim-users] Kalarm plays sound -- sometimes

[James K. Gruetzner]

Hi, all,

First off, a thank-you to the developers and gurus on this list for all the work 
they do and help they provide. I'm sure it's frustrating to you at times, but it 
is appreciated by others as well.

Anyway, this is probably a problem with a configuration, but my head is starting to 
ache from banging into the wall so much.  :-)      Here's the problem:

Sometimes in kalarm, when the alarm activates, it will play the sound from the 
associated file.  Sometimes it won't.  I can test a given alarm (using the Try 
button in the Edit Display Alarm - KAlarm dialog box) several times in a row, and 
sometimes the music file will play while other times it will be silent.

When running KAlarm from the command line, the following error shows up when the 
alarm does *not* play:
-------------------------
kalarm(25849)/kio (Scheduler) KIO::SchedulerPrivate::doJob: KIO is not thread-
safe. 
QObject::startTimer: QTimer can only be used with threads started with QThread
        :
<repeated six additional times>
        :
kalarm(25849)/kio (KIOJob) KIO::SimpleJob::doKill: KIO::FileJob(0x7f7c1001e980) 
This is overkill. 
-------------------------
(The PID is 25849.  There is an additional error message that occurs when the pop-
up window is closed, but that occurs whether or not the sound plays.).

This error occurs with both .mp3 and .ogg files, and with gstreamer, xine, or VLC 
selected as the Phonon back-end.  When the sound file does not play, there is no 
indication in the pavucontrol Output Devices tab that the signal is making it that 
far.  

KAlarm 2.4.11
KDE 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
Fedora 15
Dell Optiplex 755 (64 bit)

A coworker has almost an identical set-up (KAlarm/KDE/Fedora) and has no problem.  
This all leads me to believe that there is a race condition occurring which is a 
result of some user setting somewhere.

I am hoping that one of the experts on this list can give me some trouble-shooting 
ideas.  

Thanks in advance!

Sincerely,
   James
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P.S.  There is also a problem of KAlarm freezing when in the "Sound File" dialog 
box (where one assigns a sound file) whenever I press the little floppy-disc symbol 
to a file selection dialog box .  It produces the following error message:  -----
-----
QObject::startTimer: QTimer can only be used with threads started with QThread).
-----
I don't think that is related, but it might be, so I included it here.

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