[Please fix my package choice].
I'm on Ubuntu Karmic alpha with all updates to date. I'm on a second-generation MacBook. My sound worked perfectly under Jaunty and Karmic until the recent Pulse Audio updates. Now many of my applications are hit and miss - youtube won't play sound but games under wine will play sound. But I'm not complaining about that in this bug report.
If I look at my processes under System Monitor, I have about 30 instances of "aplay", each of which is using 800, 804 or 808 kbytes of RAM and currently sleeping. I presume that these are sounds that were supposed to play but have failed to do so given the new audio architecture changes. I can kill them manually or using "pulseaudio -k".
I have selected "Sound" from my System->Preferences menu to see if I can fix it. It is misbehaving. The sound preferences window has no title and no "X" in the close button's area. The window is about 3 screens high and cannot be resized. If I select the tabs, the screen is only partially drawn - it's as though it wants to spend about a minute redrawing the screen but it never actually gets there.
I realize that the underlying problem is with Pulse Audio, but still Sound Preferences shouldn't behave like this. Screenshots should explain.
Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https:/