No sound in lightyears

[Ken Sharp]

I have recently upgraded, relatively painlessly, from Natty --> Oneiric --> Precise. In Natty sound worked fine, but now in Precise there is no sound at all in lightyears. There is nothing printed in the console to give a clue as to why.

The "toggle sound" option doesn't make a difference and the Sound settings dialog claims that a python program (presumably this) is making a sound but there is nothing at all.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightyears 1.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 27 05:32:07 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lightyears
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-26 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Fix is in Debian but still hasn't made its way into Trusty.

Lazy workaround is to comment out:

if not pygame.mixer or not pygame.mixer.get_init():
       __snd_disabled = True

in /usr/share/games/lightyears/code/resource.py