Update: The problem (for me at least) appears to be that pulseaudio was not starting on login. When starting it by hand from a terminal window, the volume and Sound Preferences magically start to work again.
Michael On 05/02/2011 04:46 AM, Damian Only wrote: > I'm having the same problem. The failures seem to be random. Sometimes > the volume control works without problems, and sometimes it just does > not respond. > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773232 Title: gnome-volume-control freezes with "Waiting for sound system to respond" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
