[Realtek ALC268] pactl stat failed to find default card

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

No sound on lucid live-cd. Running 'speaker-test -c2 -Dplug:front' does produce noise from the speakers.

        *-multimedia
             description: Audio device
             product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1b
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
             version: 03
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
             resources: irq:22 memory:f8300000-f8303fff

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D1', '/dev/snd/hwC0D3', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf8300000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,1179ff0a,00100003 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200 HDA:10ec0268,1179ff0e,00100003'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 14
Date: Thu Apr 8 02:04:06 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SelectedCard: 0 Intel HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
Title: [Realtek ALC268] pactl stat failed to find default card
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V1.40
dmi.board.name: ISRAA
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: *
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV1.40:bd06/15/2007:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteX200:pvrPSPB9C-AA30DC:rvnTOSHIBA:rnISRAA:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite X200
dmi.product.version: PSPB9C-AA30DC
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Killing pulseaudio results in sound working.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This is very likely caused by the same issue as in bug 557421