hi everyone,
the other day i updated to the new kubuntu version.
ever since i have a static sound which at the beginning i didn't think had anything to do with the audio.
it sounds a bit like a machine gun going off at intervals.
when i watch a video it goes off very often.
any idea what it could be ?
thanks,
Guy.

"at the beginning" of what? boot? login? KDE?

can you create a new user and see if the sound happens

could it be your speaker cable connectors?

it sounds a couple of time while booting and then every now and then.
sometimes it increases in frequency and i have to restart the computer.
watching a video makes it worse.
there are no external speakers, hence no cables.
i will try to create another user.

If it happens during booting then I wouldn't think it was a KDE issue

could it be a fan issue (psu, cpu or case) ? maybe it's hitting a cable or the bearings are going

i doubt it is anything mechanic.
when i suspend session, as soon as i turn the computer on again, it sounds a couple of times (a quick morse like sound).

i tried to switch users and start a parallel session but there seems to be a problem
the screen just goes black and nothing seems to happen.
to go back i have to press ctrl+alt F7
could it have anything to do with it ?

when you suspend it you basically turn off everything but ram iirc so the fans wouldn't be running

to test if it's your config you don't want to run sessions parallel

no idea why you get the black screen

this time i messed it up a bit...
i took you r advice and manually erased all of the PulseAudio programms, using the MUON software center.
then, for some reason i closed MUON and could not open it again for reinstallation...
i tried to restart the computer and it would not get any further from the Kubuntu page...
i managed to go into the virtual terminal (ctrl+alt+F1)
but i need to know what to type there.
could i just run MUON from there and reinstall all the programms ?
please advise.
thanks,
Guy.

what do you mean by Kubunu page? the login screen?

muon is a gui app and you can't run gui apps from a virtual terminal, you can run apt-get commands in it stall/upgrade software. if you have an other de (Gnome, Xfce, Unity, etc) you can log into it and run Muon though I can't see how removing pulseaudio would cause an inability to start KDE

did you have other issues after the update to Kubuntu latest? if so you might want to consider force re-updating Kubuntu in the virtual terminal

what are my options then ?
i would like to first, try and re-install all PulseAudio programms and see how to continue from there
how can i go about that ?

what will be the command for force reupdating of the Kubuntu ?
and will it solve the PulseAudio programms issue ?

you would probably need to run

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 apt-get install package-name

I don't know what pulseaudio packages you uninstalled because different distros package differently but I would start with pulseaudio, libpulse0, paprefs, pulseaudio-module-x11, pulseaudio-utils
here's a list of all related packages http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywo ... ection=all

guysadan wrote:what will be the command for force reupdating of the Kubuntu ?
and will it solve the PulseAudio programms issue ?

for updating Kubuntu see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=765360
but I don't know if it will force a re-install if you're already running the latest, you may need to query Kubuntu forums for that
it should install the pulseaudio files if there are defined dependencies for the to be installed

I think the inability to switch users and the inability to login into KDE indicate a more serious issue than the sound

i get an error message:

"E: could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: permission denied)
E: unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"

?

try

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 sudo apt-get install package-name