I am also experiencing this bug, and I see it as a serious problem. It basically blocks the ability to record audio on many laptops.
I filed a bug against GStreamer on the GNOME bugzilla and I included plenty of debugging information. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336614 Jono -- Cannot record using alsa + gstreamer framework https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34597 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
