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| ryan | musings | The number of times an issue is resolved with a simple reboot is amazing. It’s why when you call tech support (for anything) it’s always the first thing they ask you. Even with my experience in tech I can forget this one little trick when troubleshooting my own stuff. I don’t have a tech support line to call so I have to google, and google and google, and since the assumption is that I’ve already rebooted, it’s not a standard answer that’s put out there. (I mean, of course I rebooted to see if that fixed the problem). I’ve written before about my [ITFDB and the announcement from Vin Scully “It’s Time for Dodger Baseball!”](/setting-up-itfdb-with-a-voice.html). With the start of the 2019 season the mp3 stopped playing. I tried all sorts of fixes. I made sure the Pi was up to date with `apt-get update` and `apt-get upgrade`. I thought maybe the issue was due to the version of Python running on the Pi (3.4.2). I thought maybe the mp3 had become corrupt and tried to regenerate it. None of these things worked. Finally I found this post and the answer was so obvious. To quote the answer: > Have you tried rebooting? > > It's a total shot in the dark, but I just transitioned from XBMC to > omxplayer and lost sound. What I did: > > # apt-get remove xbmc > > # apt-get autoremove > > # apt-get update > > # apt-get upgrade > > After that I lost sound. 10 minutes of frustration later I rebooted and > everything worked again. It wasn’t exactly my problem, but upon seeing it I decided “What the hell?” And you know what, it totally worked. I wish I would have checked to see when the last time a reboot had occurred, but it didn’t occur to me until I started writing this post. Oh well … it doesn’t really matter because it works now. | 2019-04-07 | did-you-try-restarting-it | The number of times an issue is resolved with a simple reboot is amazing. It’s why when you call tech support (for anything) it’s always the first thing they ask you. Even with my experience in tech I can forget this one little trick when troubleshooting my own … | Did you try restarting it? | https://www.ryancheley.com/2019/04/07/did-you-try-restarting-it/ |