I have a fairly recent issue with KAlarm, though I noticed for around a week it has had a tendency to stop responding and freeze.
So to present this problem:
Starting up KAlarm in the terminal brings a warning:
org.kde.pim.kalarm: Kernel alarm timers not available (no CAP_WAKE_ALARM capability)
The window presents itself, however, and then the most interesting alarms are those which give sound alerts…
So selecting the School pickup alarm - presents the window as expected.
I have a sound file selected (which works - and was working before), so I think selecting ‘Try’ should present 1. The alert window/text and 2. Play the sound file.
What actually happens is that I get an Error window stating that there’s an error playing the file.
Interestingly, THE FILE IS NOW PLAYING and will stop playingi if I kill the terminal hosting KAlarm.
Previously I noticed the alarms were silent… and upon doing this same action a second time as I write this, I see the text alert and a simple error:
org.kde.pim.kalarm: AudioPlayer::play: Failed to play sound with VLC: "/home/ben/Audio/Alerts-home/Java Jive - Manhatten Transfer.opus"
[00007c239400d040] cache_read stream error: cannot pre fill buffer
[00007c2394022320] mjpeg demux error: cannot peek
To be clear, the file is fine - it plays normally and I have also tried others and tested it with VLC (the backend for KAlarm).
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.10-5-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Product Name: B550M Steel Legend
What’s next?