No sound in Intrepid when using 2.6.24-16-i386 kernel

[KIAaze]

I made some additional upgrades today on Intrepid and suddenly, I don't have sound anymore.
Festival gives me this for example:
$echo "test" | festival --tts
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

Kaffeine tells me "Audio output unavailable. Device is busy. ()"

And in sound preferences, trying to test yields this:
"audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Failed to connect stream: Invalid argument"

Attached is a list of the upgrade (which also removed a lot of packages).

Update:
I restarted selecting the 2.6.24-16-generic kernel instead of the 2.6.24-16-i386 kernel and now I have sound again. :)
However, I had the same three error messages at startup about some applets being unable to load:
-volume applet: OAFIID:GNOME_MixerApplet
-trash applet: OAFIID:GNOME_Panel_TrashApplet
-System monitor: OAFIID:GNOME_MultiLoadApplet

[KIAaze (zohn-joidberg)]

Just wanted to add that I located the cause of the applets not loading:
gnome-applets got removed.
cf: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=796787

[Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please include the information requested from the "Reporting Sound Bugs" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems as separate attachments.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!