FYI, this bug is trivially reproducible by doing the following on the command line:
asoundconf set-default-card foo Just to save the time of whoever winds up looking into this. -- "Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings." is a really unhelpful error message https://launchpad.net/bugs/61211 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs