shows muted speaker icon although volume is not muted

[Martin Pitt]

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

Sometimes, but not always, the sound indicator starts up displaying as muted in the panel icon. However, the sound card is not actually muted, I can (and are currently) play and hear music just fine.

When I open the indicator menu, the volume level is correct. As soon as I change the slider, the icon in the panel changes to show the correct volume.

I have two sound cards, a builtin primary one, and an USB headset, might that make a difference?

$ LANG= aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Headset [Logitech USB Headset], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 24 13:56:19 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100316)
Package: indicator-sound 0.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: indicator-sound
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Will try to reproduce this on my machine at home tomorrow.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Very difficult to reproduce, will keep trying.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Martin,

Are you still seeing this ?

Conor

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I didn't see it in the last two days. Were there some recent changes which could have fixed this, or is it just pure luck? (We all know heisenbugs..) Thanks!

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

To be honest Martin nothing has changed. I have been watching for it closely. But have not seen it even once on 64bit or 32bit. Nobody else has seen it either...

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Haven't seen it in a while now, so let's call this "magically fixed" for now. I'll reopen once I see it again. Thanks!

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Oh okay, I wish I believed in magic though :-/.
lets keep a close eye ...

On 16/04/10 09:24, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Haven't seen it in a while now, so let's call this "magically fixed" for
> now. I'll reopen once I see it again. Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: indicator-sound (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Fix Released
>
>

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[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

I just saw this in indicator-sound 0.4.3-0ubuntu1. I wish I could give you more info on how it happened.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Actually just happened again:

1) I play around with the sound indicator, especially with "Sound preferences"
2) suddenly crash apport comes up but indicator is still there and now muted while music still plays
3) apport does not work: "The program crashed on an assertion failure, but the message could not be retrieved. Apport does not support reporting these crashes."
4) now I have the sound icon muted and music plays still
5) very interesting, now I have two volume sliders in my sound indicator: one on top and one below "Sound preferences"

I might be able to reproduce, let me know if you need any backtrace.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Btw, I had rhythmbox last.fm playing during all that.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

And here's the screenshot that shows the two sliders.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Actually, this happens to me constantly in maverick. Has this been reported somewhere else for 10.10?

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Hi Bernhard,

Can you confirm that Pulse is running ?
Cannot reproduce this from my end.

Conor

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

This sounds like the service is crashing constantly. Have you updated, recently ?

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

I will check next time if Pulseaudio is running but I guess it must be because I still have sound when I see the muted icon.

I'm running latest maverick, updating every day.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Just crashed again and pulseaudio is running normally. It must be sound-indicator, something places the slider at the bottom under "Sound Preferences" (not usually there) and then the sound-indicator icon is kind of superseded.

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Hi Bernard,

Later on today I should release 0.4.5 which may fix these issues. Please retest once this is out and let me know how it behaves.

Conor

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Yeah, I didn't encounter this problem anymore after upgrading to 0.4.5. Will let you know if it shows up again.