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   root  wrote:   
   > Ralph Spitzner  wrote:   
   >> root wrote on 12/27/21 5:08 AM:   
   >>> I updated my kernel to 4.15.2 on a machine which   
   >>> had been running 4.8.10. After switchin the kernel   
   >>> I updated my 14.2 Slackware system with slackpkg, and   
   >>> after completion I (mistakenly) said to overwrite   
   >>> my .conf files. Now I have lost sound on mpv   
   >>   
   >> hmm strange audio problem, there.   
   >> Nevertheless there should be *.orig files in /etc/....   
   >> which are the ones before slackpkg hit...   
   >>        -rasp   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Thanks for responding.   
   >   
   > mpv was side-loaded, it isn't in the slackpkg set.   
   > I'm pretty sure that if a change in some conf file   
   > was the problem, it indirectly affected mpv.   
   >   
   > In my experience mpv has only worked under the kernel   
   > I was running when I first installed it. My next   
   > step is to build it anew with the current kernel.   
      
   Well that didn't work. The procedure to build mpv   
   failed:   
      
   [ about 15 minutes of screwing around skipped ]   
      
   + do_update_debian_versions   
   + scripts/debian-update-versions   
   + do_bootstrap   
   + scripts/mpv-bootstrap   
   Downloading https://waf.io/waf-2.0.20...   
   Download failed! ()   
   Downloading http://www.freehackers.org/~tnagy/release/waf-2.0.20...   
   Download failed! ()   
   Could not download waf-2.0.20.   
   python3: can't open file './waf': [Errno 2] No such file or directory   
      
   I've been getting expired certificates frequently since my slackpkg   
   update. There is no place in my mpv-build script to add --no-check-certificate.   
      
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