i continued digging through that bug report. someone suggested pulseaudio might be responsible for the erratic record. killing pulseaudio did solve the erratic counter problem. and restarting it with pulseaudio -D did recreate the problem. when restaring in non-daemon mode, the following message is displayed :
~$ pulseaudio W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front: // thinking the Operation not prmitted might result from non-root ~$ sudo pulseaudio W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified). ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 // ok have your --system ~$ sudo pulseaudio --system=TRUE W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 No protocol specified E: x11wrap.c: XOpenDisplay() failed E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-publish" (argument: ""): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. // seems to bring nothing good so I try on debug log level: [see attached logfile] I hope this might be useful //hope this was somehow useful ** Attachment added: "pulseaudio.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19084109/pulseaudio.log -- STAC9872AK failed to get sound input https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290052 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
