<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Brad DerManouelian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br></div></div><div>Yeah, I've been through all this stuff over the past 3 years with mythtv, but this was my first ubuntu no sound experience and couldn't fix it. I found a post on the ubuntu forums from August where someone had the exact same problem I did (xbmc, then no sound). He ended up reinstalling ubuntu - and it happened again to him. So I've decided to just reinstall and not try xbmc again. :)</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>-Brad</div><div><br></div></font></div><br></blockquote><br>I ran into this problem too and was able to lick it. Not that I expect this to change any minds (I'm certainly of the mind to ditch something when it burns me really bad), but for anyone else it happens to:<br>
<br>This seems to be some combination of a problem between Ubuntu, and, _possibly_ XBMC. I found a lot of information on the net regarding this issue that seemed to predate or at least not involve XBMC at all.<br><br>The /etc/init.d/alsa-utils init script in Ubuntu does a whole lot of "stuff" to save/restore the ALSA sound state. Looks like quite more than Fedora ever did back when I used it. Somehow an app crash makes one of the sound output connections "go away" (in my case it was spdif), and then this script stores / then restores said broken state on reboot. The workaround is to move that script out of the way for the next reboot (sudo mv /etc/init.d/alsa-utils /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.TEMP), reboot, then manually restore your mixer settings (specifically volume since ALSA starts with volumes muted for some crazy reason).<br>
<br>I did this, and then did an explicit "alsactl store asound.state.WORKS" so hopefully if it ever happens again I can restore the sound with a simple "alsactl restore" call. I've experienced several XBMC *and* mythfrontend crashes since then with no recurring problems yet.<br>
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