Audio player doesn't allow for audio volume changes

[Rallias Ubernerd]

Ok, so when I did the final update to the official 11.04 (woot woot), something broke. The first time, it came back after 5 minnutes, but after rebooting (well... battery ran out of juice), the audio volume controls are completely irresponsive. When I click sound preferences, it gets a new pop up window with the window title blank, the program name "Sound", and the text of the box saying "Waiting for the sound system to respond". The icon is the info icon, and the text on the single button is "Cancel". This is a regression, the audio system worked in the alpha's and beta's for 11.04. I've tested this in the 32 bit edition and the 64 bit edition, fresh install and moldy (well...) install 3 months ago. The results are the same.

Release: Ubuntu 11.04
unknown package
Expected: fn + f11 should have decreased volume for me.
Acutal: No response.

[Rallias Ubernerd (robinstar1574)]

Before I forget, this bug was discovered using an Asus K50ij laptop.

[Rallias Ubernerd (robinstar1574)]

Did some fiddling around, it seems to be an issue with a file lock in the ~/.pulse directory. Deleting this directory and doing pulseaudio --start allowed me to access the Sound Preferences menu and change volume by fn f11/fn f12, along with mute with fn f10, however, the sound bar in the notifications applet shows "Label Empty" and an unusable volume adjustment bar.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) reached end-of-life on October 28, 2012.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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