Balance not restored in Audio panel after restart of system.

[Holger Seelig]

Changing the balance in the Audio panel of the gnome-control-center is not saved in gconf or whereever.
Or After a reboot the balance is not restored. The audio balance is set again to its default 50/50 value.

The balance should stay by the value set forever until changed again.

Best regards,
Holger Seelig

holger@qualle:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

holger@qualle:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installiert: 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
  Kandidat: 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 9 22:45:37 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-04 (66 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu4.1
 deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.18-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1

[isync (o-zucker)]

An "adjusted" balance *is* restored after restart, but slider on the UI says it's 50/50.

The balance-slider apparently has a number of problems. I don't know if the bug I've found is the same as the one reported here, related or completely different. But I've found that the balance slider works (even without any distortion or anything reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/426788) and the adjusted balance is restored/remembered across system restarts.

BUT, after a restart, the slider is again set to "middle" although the balance is actually still in my previous "adjusted" setting. Moving the slider, putting it to one side, then again to "middle" resets the balance to 50/50. So it seems, the actual settings-value is not read-out on system restart from the actual config used by the system, and the slider is always (initially) set to 50/50 - although the actual underlying system-setting may be different.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gnome-control-center is only a configuration UI, it can't restore settings on start since it's not running ... that should be something for pulseaudio or a session service like gnome-settings-daemon

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PulseAudio

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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