Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #286430
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 286430

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Nick Read (nickread) wrote :

I started getting this problem a few days after upgrading to Intrepid. While restarting PulseAudio manually (like kylea) was making it work, I was getting fed up and found this issue. Taking Luke's advice and disabling the gnome sound events then restarting worked a treat. I was then able to re-enable them, restart, and everything is working as expected. The steps were basically:

1. Login (actually, it was an auto login - could this be the source of the problem?)
2. Apps couldn't connect to PA
3. gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false
4. Restart
5. Test PA using the PA Setup and also check sound plays in Banshee - no probs.
6. gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds true
7. Immediately hear the Ubuntu login sound playing
8. Restart
9. Auto login and Ubuntu login sound plays, Banshee plays, PA Setup works, etc...

I'm unsure what /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds was set to prior to the changes (I should have checked). Maybe it wasn't set and defaulting back to the schema value? I can't understand though why setting to false then true would have solved the problem.