Having the same problem with Ubuntu 11.04, as of Nov 4, 2011. But, until today I've never had a problem. Interestingly, the small icon on my toolbar changed today also. Was there an update that has broken things? In fact, it causes *everything* to respond very very slowly...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-media in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773232 Title: gnome-volume-control freezes with "Waiting for sound system to respond" Status in “gnome-media” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-media Cannot change the volume, clicking on "Sound Preferences..." or running gnome-volume-control from the command line both result in a "Waiting for sound system to respond" window. The program will wait forever and never continue beyond this point. Playing sounds from the command line works fine with the following example: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav And alsamixer works from the command line. Some more information: # dmidecode | grep Product Product Name: iMac9,1 Product Name: Mac-F2218FA9 # lspci | grep Audio 00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1) # aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC889A Analog [ALC889A Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC889A Digital [ALC889A Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 # uname -a Linux canis 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux For this particular sound card, several reports have been seen where users have had to add a specific options command to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. Each of the following options have been tried in turn: options snd-hda-intel model=auto options snd-hda-intel model=mb5 options snd-hda-intel model=mbp5 options snd-hda-intel model=mbp3 options snd-hda-intel model=mac24 options snd-hda-intel model=imac24 (The only result of the above module options have been to switch audio output from headphones to speakers, or to break sound all together.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: gnome-media 2.32.0-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Apr 29 08:43:11 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64+mac (20110411.2) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en SourcePackage: gnome-media UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/773232/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
