discussing with om26er on irc, the issue went away after reboot. Also, pulseaudio had crashed during reboot.
indicator-sound hides itself iff the user opts in gsettings to hide it, so it's not hiding. Probably whatever caused pulse to crash also caused indicator-sound to crash. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1461137 Title: Sound indicator missing on upgrade Status in indicator-sound package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: The sound icon is missing when I upgraded from last promoted rtm image to RC. I upgraded from ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en to ubuntu-touch/rc- proposed/bq-aquaris.en ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: indicator-sound 12.10.2+15.04.20150508-0ubuntu1 [origin: LP-PPA-ci-train-ppa-service-stable-phone-overlay] Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 Architecture: armhf CrashDB: indicator_sound Date: Tue Jun 2 20:14:40 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-02 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 - armhf (20150602-080906) SourcePackage: indicator-sound ThirdParty: True UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) upstart.indicator-sound.log: indicator-sound stop/pre-start, process 3362 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1461137/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

