Karmic : Pulseaudio can't find any hardware devices

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

If I go to System -> Preferences -> Sound and then choose the Hardware tab, there are no hardware devices lists.

However I have this:

     prompt > cat /proc/asound/cards
       0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
                         Intel ICH6 with STAC9752,53 at irq 16

ProblemType: Bug
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Sep 26 17:24 by-path
AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/seq'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Sat Sep 26 17:48:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.18-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-14.47-generic
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic i686

[David Henningsson (diwic)]

You're running kernel 2.6.28, while Karmic currently ships with kernel 2.6.31. Can you try with the standard Karmic kernel and see if that helps?

[Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd)]

Yep, upgrading kernel fixed it.

Obviously this machine was upgraded from jaunty using 'do-release-upgrade -d' which for some reason didn't run the new kernel.

Feel free to close this bug.