[USB-Audio - Samson Meteor Mic, recording] Pulseaudio fails to detect card

[Oliver Oxton]

Card is seen in Alsa with playback and recording successfully (there is a headphone jack on the back of the mic itself)
Card is not seen in Pulseaudio
The USB port itself is not the issue, and other USB audio recording devices work (i.e. Webcam microphone works and is recognized)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:3.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-21.32-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 20 18:48:32 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-18 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Symptom_Card: GK104 HDMI Audio Controller - HDA NVidia
Title: [USB-Audio - Samson Meteor Mic, recording] Pulseaudio fails to detect card
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/12/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FB
dmi.board.name: Z68AP-D3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFB:bd10/12/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnZ68AP-D3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ68AP-D3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Z68AP-D3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

[Oliver Oxton (allofher)]

Assuming you wanted this log - here you are.
Hopefully this is what you were looking for - thanks for the help.

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Seems to be a kernel/driver related problem:

[43751.609481] xhci_hcd 0000:02:00.0: ERROR: unexpected command completion code 0x11.
[43751.609483] usb 3-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1
[43751.609484] 4:2:1: usb_set_interface failed (-22)

Unfortunately one cannot tell from the dmesg if this is a just a followup error with a "real" error earlier.

[Oliver Oxton (allofher)]

Are there any other logs I could pull up that may indicate whether some previous error caused this, or if infact it is some kind of bug/conflict?

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Good question. I guess it would be good to have dmesg output from the instant when this is connected and you try to record, but I'm not sure if that will lead anywhere.

[Raymond (superquad-vortex2)]

  4.597| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Loading module-alsa-card with arguments 'device_id="1" name="usb-Samson_Technologies_Samson_Meteor_Mic-00-Mic" card_name="alsa_card.usb-Samson_Technologies_Samson_Meteor_Mic-00-Mic" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1"'
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] reserve-wrap.c: Successfully acquired reservation lock on device 'Audio1'
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Looking at profile input:analog-mono
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Checking for recording on Analog Mono (analog-mono)
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying hw:1 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open hw:1
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(1) failed: Invalid argument
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying hw:1 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open hw:1
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(1) failed: Invalid argument
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying plug:hw:1 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open plug:hw:1
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(1) failed: Invalid argument
( 4.598| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying plug:hw:1 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open plug:hw:1
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels(1) failed: Invalid argument
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Failed to set hardware parameters on plug:hw:1: Invalid argument
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Caching failure to open input:analog-mono
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Looking at profile input:analog-stereo
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-mixer.c: Checking for recording on Analog Stereo (analog-stereo)
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying front:1 with SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Managed to open front:1
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Maximum hw buffer size is 5944 ms
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-5)
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-5)
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-5)
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-5)
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Set neither period nor buffer size.
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] (alsa-lib)pcm_hw.c: SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed (-5)
( 4.599| 0.000) I: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_hw_params failed: Input/output error
( 4.599| 0.000) D: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Trying front:1 without SND_PCM_NO_AUTO_FORMAT ...
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

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