[karmic] dist-upgrade from jaunty results in inaudible audio due to consolekit/policykit/devicekit/udev @audio membership

Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: nixternal 17979 F.... knotify4
                      nixternal 18180 F.... kmix
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9205'
   Components : 'HDA:838476a0,102801fe,00100204 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 15
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_CTYPE=C
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 2/2
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: nixternal 17979 F.... knotify4
                      nixternal 18180 F.... kmix
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9205'
   Components : 'HDA:838476a0,102801fe,00100204 HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000'
   Controls : 24
   Simple ctrls : 15
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: alsa-base 1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_CTYPE=C
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-6.7-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-6-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Could you attempt to download and run http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh? Seems the apport collection couldn't find a sound card, and I want to see whether the alsa-info script has any more luck.

BTW have you tried rebooting your system to see if anything changes?

 affects ubuntu/alsa-driver
 status incomplete

Since this is pulse related, invalidating the driver task.

 affects ubuntu/alsa-driver
 status invalid

Rich, are you actually using pulseaudio on said install? If so, please mark this bug a dupe of 433654

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