Missing access to sound cards?

[sabby7890]

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
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio
 /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.values:
 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:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFF:bd10/13/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG31M-ES2L:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG31M-ES2L:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: G31M-ES2L
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[sabby7890 (tsalacinski)]

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.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.

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We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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