I'm having a similar issue. I found this bug after looking through the forums, and it seems my problem could be related.
My problem started when I installed Monkey Bubble and had no sound in the game. This turned out to be a common problem. After following some advice in an UbuntuForums thread to install "pulseaudio." I still couldn't get sound from Monkey Bubble, but nothing else other than Amarok that I tested produced sound. I uninstalled "pulseaudio" and the one or two other packages it had brought with it, including "pulseaudio-esound-compat". Now I get no system sounds, no game sounds...the only thing that seems to produce sound is Amarok. When I run "frozen-bubble" from a command line, part of the error is the same as one above: [SDL Init] ALSA lib pcm.c:2105:(snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library /usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so [Graphics............] Warning: can't initialize sound (reason: No available audio device). After removing and reinstalling alsa-base (and dependent packages), the error message stayed the same. Seeing "pulse" in the missing module made me wonder if I should now try reinstalling "pulseaudio". After doing so, the frozen-bubble error message changed to: [SDL Init] *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused [Graphics............] Is it worse? Is it related? I don't know, but I thought I'd attempt to contribute. -- system sounds do not play https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
