Sound Recorder can not record sound

[Susan Cragin]

Opened Sound Recorder.
Pushed button "Record As"
  --nothing happened

Pushed button "Record Sound"
 --nothing happened

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-media 3.4.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 27 08:40:12 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-04 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130102)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-media
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu laptop testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1106908

[Dinçer Kavraal (dkavraal)]

It says (except the first time pushing red record button) each time,
(gnome-sound-recorder:21604): GStreamer-WARNING **: Element 'gconfaudiosource' already has parent

# gnome-sound-recorder --gst-version
GStreamer Core Library version 0.10.36

# uname -a
Linux hostname 3.8.0-25-lowlatency #17-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Sat Jun 8 15:59:57 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=raring
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.04"

[abautu (abautu-gmail)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622665 - marked as unconfirmed
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1602071#post1602071 - fixed (but might be different issue)

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Sound recorder still can't record sounds in Ubuntu 13.10!

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

GNOME media utilities 2.91.2 is older than the current packaged version. Launchpad may be missing release information for the main series or this package is linked to the wrong GNOME media utilities series.

[Tobias Wolter (towo)]

This is a bug present in 13.04, 13.10, gnome stable as well as staging ppas. It's utterly silly and makes a whole program unusable, please stop playing the triage and blame game and start debugging this.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

- Triaging is what the Ubuntu Bug Control team is intended for.
- Developers usually choose to only work in bugs that have been triaged.

[Žygimantas Beručka (zygis)]

Any ideas what an average user can do to help solving this?

I reported this bug on the upstream bugzilla.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

Žygimantas, the remaining work for the moment is a developer to patch the bug.