My problem was that on my newer notebook 'HDA Intel PCH' sound card was not the default for some reason. It's either different hardware or could also be the fact that I'm using 15.10 instead of 14.04
You may try to change the 'card' parameter in the .config/volumeicon/volumeicon. It is set to 'default' by default. Changing it to 'card=hw:1' solved the problem here. [Alsa] card=hw:1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1473733 Title: volume-icon alsa crashes in Vivid x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/volumeicon/+bug/1473733/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
