I've learned more about what I think is happening here. I've upgraded three other computers to Hardy w/o this behavior, so I don't think it's an upgrade problem.
Adding my username to the above mentioned groups solved the audio problem until the machine was rebooted, whereupon the same problem reappeared. I tried launching pulseaudio from the command line to see what was happening, and kept getting: E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_8086_24d5_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed. Humm... More investigation on what would be occupying the hardware and preventing pulseaudio from completely launching led me to the Gizmoproject soft phone. Output of lsof | grep /dev/snd indicated Gizmo was occupying the hardware. Exited Gizmo, and pulseaudio launched properly and all is happy. Apparently Gizmo has an incompatibility with PulseAudio (http://support.gizmoproject.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=330). SO, I'm guessing that this incompatibility kept pulse from launching and completing the installation which included the group assignments mentioned above. Also, I checked to see if order of launching makes a difference - gizmo then pulseaudio vs. pulseaudio then gizmo. In both cases gizmo grabbed the hardware and pulse rolled over dead without a fight causing system audio to go down. Gizmo continued to work fine in either case. I'll see what else I can learn about this. Thanks, Mike -- In upgrade to 8.04, Pulse Audio group permissions don't get set https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224367 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
