display a mute icon until volume is changed since update

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: indicator-sound

That started happened after the recent update, the volume is not muted and the slider is correct but the icon in the indicator bar is displayed as muted until volume is changed

indicator-sound-service log when starting the indicator and getting the issue

"** (process:6095): DEBUG: Root ID: 1
** (process:6095): DEBUG: update pa state with state 0, availability of 0, mute value of 0 and a volume percent is 0,000000
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Building new Slider Menu Item
** (process:6095): DEBUG: !!!!!!**in the rebuild sound menu - slider active = 0
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_AVAILABILITY_UPDATE, with value 0
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_VOLUME_UPDATE, with sink_volme 0,000000
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_MUTE_UPDATE, with sink mute 0
** (process:6095): DEBUG: connecting - waiting for the server to become available
** (process:6095): DEBUG: authorizing
** (process:6095): DEBUG: context setting name
** (process:6095): DEBUG: PA daemon is ready
** (process:6095): DEBUG: server info callback
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Just set the default sink index to 0

** (process:6095): WARNING **: Default Sink info callback failure
** (process:6095): DEBUG: About to add an item to our hash
** (process:6095): DEBUG: After adding an item to our hash
** (process:6095): DEBUG: About to test for to see if the available sink is null - s->name = alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
** (process:6095): DEBUG: sink_available: 1
** (process:6095): DEBUG: software volume = 30,433655
** (process:6095): DEBUG: update pa state with state 1, availability of 1, mute value of 0 and a volume percent is 30,433655
** (process:6095): DEBUG: in the refresh menu method
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_AVAILABILITY_UPDATE, with value 1
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_VOLUME_UPDATE, with sink_volme 30,433655
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Emitting signal: SINK_MUTE_UPDATE, with sink mute 0
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Get sink volume method in the sound service dbus!, about to send over volume percent of 30,433655
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Get sink mute - sound service dbus!, about to send over mute_value of 0
** (process:6095): DEBUG: Get sink availability - sound service dbus!, about to send over availability_value of 1"

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Confirmed, it is strange, after a certain time, indicator-sound is displaying like the sound is muted, but it is not and can be verified by displaying notify-osd. Add a screenshot to it.

[Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount)]

This affects me too.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #538923 is similar with the status icon, libdbusmenu issue?

[Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount)]

Seems if you remove the indicator-messages part of the indicator crapplet, the volume control part of the crapplet stops doing this.

Oh well, the messages part is part of the indicator crapplet fluff that pollutes the panel and destroys the user's sanity anyway. :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The previous comment doesn't respect the code of conduct and is out of order there

[Ryan (ryan-farmer-personal-deactivatedaccount)]

Well snap. It's perfectly obvious that if you didn't remove the volume applet that's supposed to be there anyway, this wouldn't be happening.

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

The same here, in Lucid upgraded from karmic.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package indicator-sound - 0.1.3.1-0ubuntu2

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indicator-sound (0.1.3.1-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Backport upstream changes to fix those issues:
    - "Wrong i18n for menu entries", thank Luca Ferretti (lp: #538704)
    - "display a mute icon until volume is changed since update" (lp: #537977)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:51:35 +0100

[Sam Townsend (stownsend42)]

I still see this problem even with the latest update.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Sam, its fixed in indicator-sound 0.1.3.1-0ubuntu2 please do 'apt-cache policy indicator-sound' to check which version you have.

[Sam Townsend (stownsend42)]

Disregard my last message. The problem disappeared after a reboot.

[PrivateUser132781 (privateuser132781-deactivatedaccount)]

I seem to still experience this, despite having installed the latest updates. Perhaps my mirror (za.archive) is slow to get the latest packages?

[Conor Curran (cjcurran)]

Hi Eduard,

Which version do you have installed ?
apt-cache policy indicator-sound - could you check paste in the output of the above command here