In message <200412280050.iBS0ofA01313@toad.rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly writes:
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>When KDE3 starts up I get a popup window with:
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>Sound server fatal error:
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>AudioSubSystem::handleIO: write failed
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>en = 3860, can_write = 4096, errno = 17 (File exists)
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>This might be a sound hardware/driver specific
>problem (see aRts FAQ)
>

I just ran into that, too.  I changed the sound selection to esound, 
and it worked.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb