Well, I'm embarrassed to say that updating to 13.10 just now fixed my sound menu issue completely. I'm not sure why it persisted through my last upgrade (to 13.04) and not this one, as both were clean installs. The only thing I can think of is that last time I kept my Fast Track plugged in during my ubuntu install, and this time I kept it unplugged and plugged it in after I had installed and restarted. Perhaps the card was autodetected in a strange way, or the OS install installed a driver for it in a strange manner?
My only other explanation is that some package was changed in 13.10 and not backported to 13.04... but that seems odd. Anyway, I guess the matter is closed! Thank you David for your help on trying to figure out my issue, and I apologize for wasting your time. I appreciate what you did for me! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1131220 Title: [soundnua]: gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in gvc_mixer_control_lookup_device_from_stream() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1131220/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs