Quote Originally Posted by kirol
I've got a sarge install (modulo a few backports a/o testing packages). Works great since 2+ years. Recently I can't get sound to work with my regular account. The weird thing is i get half the KDE startup sound, then it's abruptly cut and no app is allowed to use the sound system (xmms, juk, kaffeine..). It works for root, though. A CLI cd player (workbone) works under both accounts, so the problem misght be kde/arts related. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Try to move .kde directory to another directory, for example:

% cd
% mv .kde .kdeback

Now KDE will think it starts for the first time, and reinstall default configuration.

See if this works. If it does, the error is in the setup in your home directory.

Then, as step two, you could try to debug KDE configuration files and see if you can find error.

Hope this helps.

Marv