Hello

Using Ubuntu 14.04 and TDE 14.

Yesterday after running sudo apt-get autoremove I was suddenly presented with an option to close or disable an X server (I think). I assumed it had something to do with a tty, at least not the desktop so I said yes. After selecting yes, the desktop disappeared and I was presented with tty1. I logged in and started the desktop with startx.

At least I had a working Trinity desktop! However the volume control has a small red circle with a white cross partially covering it, hovering the mouse pointer over it causes a pop up to appear "Mixer cannot be found".

As you can see from the log below I tried installing and reinstalling Alsa and Pulseaudio, even Arts, but still the sound didn't work.

On IRC Slavek suggested "sudo aptitude install tdebase-trinity --without-recommends", after installing aptitude, it installed a few packages, but after a restart still no sound.

However "sudo startx" did have sound!

Eventually I gave up and reinstalled Ubuntu/Trinity.

Next time what should I do to restore sound?

The apt-get log

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 19:08:59 Commandline: apt-get remove gtk-qt-engine-trinity Remove: kubuntu-desktop-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr22), gtk-qt-engine-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r176-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr23) End-Date: 2014-12-26 19:09:03

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 19:09:33 Commandline: apt-get autoremove Remove: kdbusnotification-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r117-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr16), kmenuedit-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1865-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr185), powermanagement-interface:amd64 (0.3.20ubuntu1), kcron-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r211-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr31), arts-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r161-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr27), tde-systemsettings-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r176-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr21), acpi:amd64 (1.7-1), twin-style-crystal-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r149-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr17), tdm-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1865-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr185), tdepasswd-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1865-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr185), libxp6:amd64 (1.0.2-1ubuntu1), screen:amd64 (4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-9), qt4-tqt-theme-engine:amd64 (14.0.0-r41-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr8), sudo-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr4), libsmoketqt1-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r278-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr41), ksystemlog-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r164-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr20), synaptic-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r1-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr2), tde-style-qtcurve-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r172-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr22), foomatic-db-engine:amd64 (4.0.11-0ubuntu1), tdeadmin-tdefile-plugins-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r211-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr31), freeglut3:amd64 (2.8.1-1), ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r132-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr15), knetworkconf-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r211-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr31), libtqt-perl:amd64 (14.0.0-r153-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr14), tdeio-locate-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r90-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr11) End-Date: 2014-12-26 19:10:13

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 19:37:17 Commandline: apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio Purge: alsa-base:amd64 (1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4) End-Date: 2014-12-26 19:37:21

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 19:47:57 Commandline: apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio Install: pulseaudio:amd64 (4.0-0ubuntu11), pulseaudio-module-x11:amd64 (4.0-0ubuntu11, automatic), alsa-base:amd64 (1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4), libfftw3-single3:amd64 (3.3.3-7ubuntu3, automatic) End-Date: 2014-12-26 19:48:06

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 20:15:06 Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic Install: libgtkmm-3.0-1:amd64 (3.10.1-0ubuntu2, automatic), pavucontrol:amd64 (2.0-2) End-Date: 2014-12-26 20:15:14

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 20:32:02 Commandline: apt-get install mplayer Install: libsvga1:amd64 (1.4.3-33, automatic), libesd0:amd64 (0.2.41-11, automatic), esound-common:amd64 (0.2.41-11, automatic), mplayer:amd64 (1.1+dfsg1-0ubuntu3) End-Date: 2014-12-26 20:32:09

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 21:04:32 Commandline: apt-get purge pulseaudio gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio Purge: pulseaudio:amd64 (4.0-0ubuntu11), pulseaudio-module-x11:amd64 (4.0-0ubuntu11), gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64 (0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu5) End-Date: 2014-12-26 21:04:38

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 21:05:59 Commandline: apt-get remove alsa-base alsa-utils Remove: ubuntu-drivers-common:amd64 (0.2.91.7), alsa-base:amd64 (1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4), alsa-utils:amd64 (1.0.27.2-1ubuntu2), software-properties-gtk:amd64 (0.92.37.2) End-Date: 2014-12-26 21:06:23

Start-Date: 2014-12-26 21:09:34 Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic Install: arts-trinity:amd64 (14.0.0-r161-0ubuntu14.04.0+pr27) End-Date: 2014-12-26 21:09:37