[Mageia-discuss] missing volume control

Mon Jan 9 15:25:30 CET 2012

On 01/09/2012 02:30 AM, Alejandro López wrote:
+> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, TJ
+> <andrewsfarm at gmail.com
+> <mailto:andrewsfarm at gmail.com>> wrote:
+>
+>     This has happened once in a while before, but considerably more
+>     often in the last few days.
+>
+>     I have Mageia set up to automatically log in my one and only
+>     ordinary user when I boot up. Lately, maybe 25% of the time, when I
+>     boot up the volume control is missing from the system tray. Logging
+>     out and back in (reboot not needed, but would probably work,
+>     too)restores it. I noticed today and yesterday that when this
+>     happens the "welcome" music is truncated to one or two notes. I
+>     didn't notice one way or the other before yesterday.
+>
+> It some times happens to me that the CPU info applet is missing. In that
+> case, all I do is kill the panel (pkill gnome-panel). When it is
+> automatically re-launched, everything is OK.
+>
+>
+>
+I noticed that I had neglected to shut off Ktorrent after the last time 
+I used it - all I did was hit the window closer in the corner, and that 
+leaves it active with an icon in the system tray. Since actually 
+shutting it down, the volume control and welcome tune operate normally.
+
+Dunno if that qualifies as a system bug, or merely incompetence on my part.
+
+TJ
+
+