Volume slider disabled

[marmuta]

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

Hi, the volume slider is disabled (grayed) on my system, probably because pulseaudio fails to start on login (still investigating). However even after starting pa manually the slider never becomes enabled, in fact I have never seen it enabled yet. Killing and restarting gnome-panel and/or pulseaudio doesn't help. Once started there are no other obvious problems with pulseaudio and everything in "SoundPreferences" including the slider "Output volume" works as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 23 13:35:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-sound 0.1.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, User Name)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
SourcePackage: indicator-sound
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic x86_64

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Okay this does sound likely. The sound service needs to handle pulseaudio either not running properly or disappearing while up. To confirm this:

1. Please ensure PA is running,
2. Remove the sound-indicator from the panel
3. From terminal run "killall indicator-sound-service".
4. Run "killall indicator-sound-service" again and ensure the return response is "indicator-sound-service: no process found"
5. Then re-add the sound menu to the panel.

It should come back up properly then.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Yep, following the instructions it comes up enabled and working. Thanks, I didn't know about indicator-sound-service.
At first it looked like "killall indicator-sound-service" alone would work too, but on second try I ended up with everything added twice to the indicator menu, i.e. two sets of volume sliders, labels, etc.. It did enable the topmost slider though :). No problems with the full procedure however.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Okay good. I will try to resolve this case for the next release. Thanks !

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the change is in the current lucid version