No sound at all - interference with package speech-dispatcher

[Hans Streibel]

After a dist-upgrade a few days ago (12.04) I was not able to hear sound any more.
No error messages, everything seemed to work fine - simply no output.

Removing the package speech-dispatcher solved the problem
(it had running pulseaudio processes, too), however that is
a workaround.

What you see in the debug information is the situation
after removal of the package speech-dispatcher.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-9.16-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-9-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: hans 3323 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0400000 irq 47'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,144dc072,00100004'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 10
Date: Tue Jan 17 09:04:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-31 (16 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: 00KB.M046.20100127.JIP
dmi.board.asset.tag: SAMSUNG
dmi.board.name: N150
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvr00KB.M046.20100127.JIP:bd01/27/2010:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnN150:pvrNotApplicable:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnN150:rvrNotApplicable:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: N150
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

[Hans Streibel (hans-streibel)]

Ups - small typo:

The interfering package is speech-dispatcher (and not speed-dispatcher as I wrote in the title).