Public bug reported: Pulseaudio doesn't find any sound cards, resulting with no sound. After killing the daemon by killall pulseaudio -9 and restarting it as root by puslseaudio --system, everything starts working fine.
On SOME sessions it does start, on some it doesn't. It's very hard to reproduce this. I am using Sound Blaster Live card. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: tommy 2260 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: tommy 2260 F...m pulseaudio Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Live'/'SB Live! 5.1 (rev.8, serial:0x80641102) at 0xdf00, irq 19' Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9708,11' Components : 'AC97a:83847608' Controls : 225 Simple ctrls : 45 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x825'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x825 at usb-0000:00:1d.7-7, high speed' Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' Components : 'USB046d:0825' Controls : 2 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum Capture channels: Mono Limits: Capture 0 - 6144 Mono: Capture 6144 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Date: Sat Oct 8 00:03:34 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-22 (15 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: FF dmi.board.name: G31M-ES2L dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFF:bd10/13/2009:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG31M-ES2L:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG31M-ES2L:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: G31M-ES2L dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870345 Title: Pulseaudio doesn't start correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/870345/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs