Comment 3 for bug 123543

I have recording fine working under opensuse 10.2 (albeit inside of vmware) so I don't really know why you are having trouble. It looks from the log that recording just isn't happening for some reason. You could try changing the file format you are recording to ogg and see if that makes a difference.

I'd also like you to check if you don't mind that gstreamer is working correctly on your system. Try typing each of these commands at the console in turn:

gst-launch-0.10 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! wavenc ! filesink location=test.wav

gst-launch-0.10 alsasrc ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=test.ogg

The command might be gst-launch on some distros. This should begin recording so just whistle down your mic a bit and then press ctrl-c to quit. If it works then test.ogg or test.wav will be a recording. If they are empty files then something is screwed.

Let us know what happens.