After a tortuous installation of KDE 3.2 on a 9.0 system, I've encountered, among others, a nasty problem with arts. It started when I logged in after installation and got a box with this message: During the previous startup, KNotify crashed while instantiating KNotify. Do you want to try again or disable aRts sound output? I could not get past that except by disabling aRts, and now I have no sound. The detailed traceback was: [New Thread 16384 (LWP 20047)] 0x4129bfd6 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #0 0x4129bfd6 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x407b4a7a in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #2 0x4129abb1 in __pthread_sighandler () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #3 <signal handler called> #4 0x415ff975 in KAudioManagerPlay::KAudioManagerPlay(KArtsServer*, QString const&) () from /opt/kde3/lib/libartskde.so.1 #5 0x415bf221 in KNotify::restartedArtsd() () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/knotify.so #6 0x415bb5a8 in KNotify::KNotify(bool) () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/knotify.so #7 0x415bab80 in kdemain () from /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/knotify.so #8 0x0804dbc9 in launch(int, char const*, char const*, char const*, int, char const*, bool, char const*, bool, char const*) () #9 0x0804eb41 in handle_launcher_request(int) () #10 0x0804f15d in handle_requests(int) () #11 0x080501b1 in main () Does anyone here know what I need to do to get my sound back? Paul Abrahams