Missing access to sound cards?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Pulseaudio doesn't find any sound cards, resulting with no sound. After killing the daemon by killall pulseaudio -9 and restarting it as root by puslseaudio --system, everything starts working fine.
On SOME sessions it does start, on some it doesn't. It's very hard to reproduce this. I am using Sound Blaster Live card.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: tommy 2260 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Live'/'SB Live! 5.1 (rev.8, serial:0x80641102) at 0xdf00, irq 19'
Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9708,11'
Components : 'AC97a:83847608'
Controls : 225
Simple ctrls : 45
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x825'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x825 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-7, high speed'
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB046d:0825'
Controls : 2
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 6144
Mono: Capture 6144 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
Date: Sat Oct 8 00:03:34 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (15 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FF
dmi.board.name: G31M-ES2L
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:bvnAwardSof
dmi.product.name: G31M-ES2L
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
summary: |
- Pulseaudio doesn't start correctly + Missing access to sound cards? |
I would rather give this "High" importance, because I have to restart my computer few times in order t get sound.
Without sound, ANY application that tries to use sound HANGS. This means, that opening Firefox or Thunderbird fails. Yes, I am NOT able to do ANYTHING when I have no sound in Ubuntu. I cannot even open GEdit, because it simply hangs. Killing pulseaudio unhangs everything.
This bugs makes Ubuntu unusable to do actually ANYTHING. I can only browser files, I cannot open ANY application.
This is a bug in Pulseaudio or any daemon that tries to start it, because removing Pulse makes everything work fine. But - I don't have the sound indicator anymore.