Comment 27 for bug 76876

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Andrew Canis (andrewcanis) wrote : Re: /dev/dsp busy, but no program using it

I ran:
$ sudo lsof |grep /dev/snd/
Turned out gnumeric was using:
/dev/snd/timer
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
/dev/snd/controlC0
After killing it my sound came right back. Hope this helps.