The same happened to me today when I installed audacity. I am using Ubuntu 14.10. The problem was solved from comment number #12: "I went into Audacity and changed the microphone source in the drop-down menu from "sysdefault: Headphone Mic:0" to "sysdefault: Internal Mic:0" and it fixed it.!"
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to alsa-driver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257956 Title: Headphones stopped working after use of Audacity. They are detected, but no sound is produced. Status in alsa-driver package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: I'm running 13.10 and the latest GNOME. I've just fresh installed everything and the problem has occured again the same way. I would like to be able to use audacity, but I suppose in the mean time I will just reinstall everything. Steps to reproduce : 1) Install audacity 2.0.3 from official Ubuntu repositories 2) Open Audacity and play something with it 3) That's it : no more headphones sound. - alsa log created with 'alsa-info.sh' (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/AlsaInfo) : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7131709/ - pulse log when I plug in my headphones, I run a MP3 file with VLC, close VLC then unplug headphones (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log) : http://paste.ubuntu.com/7131713/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1257956/+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
