I ended up testing this myself, by the following procedure: - Installed 13.04 on a virtual machine - Verified installed version of checkbox:
$ dpkg --list checkbox* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii checkbox 0.15.5 i386 System testing application un checkbox-cli <none> (no description available) un checkbox-gtk <none> (no description available) ii checkbox-qt 0.15.5 i386 QT4 interface for checkbox - Removed gstreamer1.0-alsa: $ sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-alsa [sudo] password for ubuntu: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gstreamer1.0-alsa ubuntu-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 45 not upgraded. After this operation, 239 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 156244 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ubuntu-desktop ... Removing gstreamer1.0-alsa:i386 ... - Run the test case: $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/checkbox/scripts alsa_record_playback OpenGL Warning: Failed to connect to host. Make sure 3D acceleration is enabled for this VM. libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/gst_pipeline_test", line 59, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/share/checkbox/scripts/gst_pipeline_test", line 42, in main element = Gst.parse_launch(args.PIPELINE) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/types.py", line 113, in function return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs) gi._glib.GError: no element "alsasrc" /tmp/tmp.JmIQqZjD3q/test.wav: No such file or directory rm: cannot remove ‘/tmp/tmp.JmIQqZjD3q/test.wav’: No such file or directory OK, now to update checkbox, first I enable proposed and apt-get update, then: $ sudo apt-get install checkbox checkbox-qt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: bonnie++ bootchart checkbox-cli checkbox-gtk ethtool fwts git-core glmark2 glmark2-es2 mesa-utils nmap obexftp render-bench smartmontools sox stress sysstat wmctrl The following packages will be upgraded: checkbox checkbox-qt 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded. Need to get 1,486 kB of archives. After this operation, 28.7 kB disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/main checkbox i386 0.15.6 [1,409 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-proposed/main checkbox-qt i386 0.15.6 [76.7 kB] Fetched 1,486 kB in 1s (1,025 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 156234 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace checkbox 0.15.5 (using .../checkbox_0.15.6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement checkbox ... Preparing to replace checkbox-qt 0.15.5 (using .../checkbox-qt_0.15.6_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement checkbox-qt ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Setting up checkbox (0.15.6) ... Setting up checkbox-qt (0.15.6) ... Immediately afterwards the test case is run like this: $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/checkbox/scripts alsa_record_playback Playing WAVE '/tmp/tmp.WQI1YEclIh/test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono Before "playing wave" I made some noise on the microphone, afterwards I was able to hear this noise being played back. I'll set this to verification-done. Thanks! ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059544 Title: checkbox alsa_record_playback should use autoaudiosrc instead of alsasrc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox/+bug/1059544/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs