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[Bug 1454814] Re: Audacious has no suitable sound mixer

 

** Description changed:

- During testing of Lubuntu 15.14 32bit image     20150513, the
- application "audacious" was unable to detect any suitable mixer
- elements. After I launched the program two errors showed,
+ During testing of Lubuntu 15.10 32bit image 20150513, the application
+ "audacious" was unable to detect any suitable mixer elements. After I
+ launched the program two errors showed,
  
  ALSA error: No suitable mixer element found.
  
  ALSA error: snd_mixer_find_selem failed.
  
- I expected the application to launch ready for the user to open an audio
- file to run. I have an installed Lubuntu 15.10 64bit system that I am
- using as a production system. The same problem existed when I launched
- the same application. Even after installed the audio codecs "gstreamer",
- audacious still could not detect a suitable mixer. The workaround will
- be to remove alsa and install pulseaudio.
+ I expected the application to launch, ready for the user to open an
+ audio file to run. I have an installed Lubuntu 15.10 64bit system that I
+ am using as a production system. The same problem existed when I
+ launched the same application. Even after I installed the audio codecs
+ "gstreamer", audacious still could not detect a suitable mixer. The
+ workaround will be to remove alsa and install pulseaudio.
  
  Expected results:
- Audacious opens waiting for an audio file to be opened
+ Audacious opens without error
  
  Actual results:
  Audacious was unable to find a suitable mixer element
  
  audacious:
-   Installed: 3.5-2
-   Candidate: 3.5-2
-   Version table:
-  *** 3.5-2 0
-         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe i386 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 3.5-2
+   Candidate: 3.5-2
+   Version table:
+  *** 3.5-2 0
+         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe i386 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
  Release:	15.10
  Codename:	wily
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: audacious 3.5-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-17.17-generic 3.19.6
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-17-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.360
  Date: Wed May 13 19:11:56 2015
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150513)
  ProcEnviron:
-  TERM=xterm
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  TERM=xterm
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: audacious
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  Audacious has no suitable sound mixer

Status in audacious package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During testing of Lubuntu 15.10 32bit image 20150513, the application
  "audacious" was unable to detect any suitable mixer elements. After I
  launched the program two errors showed,

  ALSA error: No suitable mixer element found.

  ALSA error: snd_mixer_find_selem failed.

  I expected the application to launch, ready for the user to open an
  audio file to run. I have an installed Lubuntu 15.10 64bit system that
  I am using as a production system. The same problem existed when I
  launched the same application. Even after I installed the audio codecs
  "gstreamer", audacious still could not detect a suitable mixer. The
  workaround will be to remove alsa and install pulseaudio.

  Expected results:
  Audacious opens without error

  Actual results:
  Audacious was unable to find a suitable mixer element

  audacious:
    Installed: 3.5-2
    Candidate: 3.5-2
    Version table:
   *** 3.5-2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
  Release:	15.10
  Codename:	wily

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: audacious 3.5-2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-17.17-generic 3.19.6
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-17-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.360
  Date: Wed May 13 19:11:56 2015
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha i386 (20150513)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: audacious
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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