Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) reached end-of-life on May 9, 2013.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899950 Title: some sink and source port names contain symbol ";" Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: A line from 'pactl list sources' output, for example: Ports: analog-input-microphone;input-microphone-1: Analog Microphone / Microphone 1 (priority. 8720) And neither GUI tool (pavucontrol) nor command-line tools (pacmd, pactl) can not set such port using all combinations I can think of (double quotes, single quotes, escape sequence). The problem as I see it lies in interface between Alsa and PulseAudio. Alsa defines such port names and PulseAudio can not use them. Additional info: 1) Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 2) pulseaudio: Installed: 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1 Candidate: 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1 Version table: *** 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/899950/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp