Sebastien, you are right its a pulseaudio issue. Once the pulseaudio killed and restarted. It applet does work in the gnome-panel
$ pkill pulseaudio; sleep 2; pulseaudio -vv -- gnome-volume-control-applet missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460203 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-media in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs