For me the sound works but pulseaudio is very unstable and crashes often. I have the same error message. (Same computer with Ubuntu Mate 15.04.)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450663 Title: no sound Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Model : HP EliteBook 840 G1 Notebook PC IDT High Definition (HD) Codec: Intel Haswell HDMI Distro: Ubuntu 15.04 Pulseaudio: 1:6.0-0ubuntu6 No sound E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Card '2' doesn't exist: No such file or directory E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="2" name="pci-0000_03_00.1" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_03_00.1" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:6.0-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-15.15-generic 3.19.3 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/hwC1D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/hwC2D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC2D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC2D3p', '/dev/snd/controlC2', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/snd/seq'] failed with exit code 1: CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri May 1 00:46:38 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-13 (168 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio Symptom: audio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-24 (5 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 06/25/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.bios.version: L71 Ver. 01.12 dmi.board.name: 198F dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.board.version: KBC Version 15.54 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU432B4WR dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrL71Ver.01.12:bd06/25/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteBook840G1:pvrA3008CD10003:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn198F:rvrKBCVersion15.54:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: HP EliteBook 840 G1 dmi.product.version: A3008CD10003 dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1450663/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp