Confirming, audio volume set to zero + muted on every boot. Up-to-date Xubuntu karmic, no pulseaudio installed. A line was added to the alsa-utils init script in1.0.20-2ubuntu4 (see http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33463027/alsa-utils_1.0.20-2ubuntu3_1.0.20-2ubuntu4.diff.gz) that is causing this trouble; commeting out this line removes the problem:
[ ! -f /var/lib/pulseaudio/pulse_a11y_nostart ] && exit $EXITSTATUS
Confirming, audio volume set to zero + muted on every boot. Up-to-date Xubuntu karmic, no pulseaudio installed. A line was added to the alsa-utils init script in1.0.20-2ubuntu4 (see http:// launchpadlibrar ian.net/ 33463027/ alsa-utils_ 1.0.20- 2ubuntu3_ 1.0.20- 2ubuntu4. diff.gz) that is causing this trouble; commeting out this line removes the problem:
[ ! -f /var/lib/ pulseaudio/ pulse_a11y_ nostart ] && exit $EXITSTATUS