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I know this is my own fault. But what i did was this
first i wrote this command 'sudo apt-get remove pulseaudio' and then i wrote again 'sudo apt-get install pulseaudio' and now the sound doesn't work properly
Sound Settings

And the Indicator doesn't work either, it's just grayed out. The shortcuts are not working either.
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Alsamixer is working, and this is the only way i change change the volume at the moment:
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jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCH            ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
                      HDA Intel PCH at 0xf1c00000 irq 52


jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:11:0:Unexpected end of file
ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /etc/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
/usr/bin/pulseaudio: error while loading shared libraries: libpulsecommon-1.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC665 Analog [ALC665 Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC665 Digital [ALC665 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

VLC sound is not working, am getting this error: enter image description here

Jeggy
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  • Is this a user specific issue or a system wide issue? Create a new account and test with that? Also you've got various comments below with stuff you have tried. Please can you add these back into your question because its quite difficult to follow what you have done. – fossfreedom Dec 03 '12 at 11:12
  • I had similar problem recently, maybe it would be helpful. – Vlad K. Dec 05 '12 at 11:40

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It seems like I'm unable to comment, so I'm putting my comment into this answer.

Could you open a terminal (Control + Alt + T by default) and enter the command alsamixer? You should see a bunch of volume levels. Make sure they are towards the top of their bars and unmuted ("OO" is unmuted, "MM" is muted at the bottom of each bar).

If it doesn't look like anything's wrong, could you post a screenshot of the alsamixer window?

Espressofa
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  • jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ alsamixer cannot open mixer: No such file or directory – Jeggy Nov 18 '12 at 21:13
  • Paste output of these: cat /proc/asound/cards, aplay -l, lsmod | grep snd – Espressofa Nov 18 '12 at 22:56
  • added it to the question – Jeggy Nov 18 '12 at 23:44
  • I'm not quite sure what's going on, but running the following script could be useful to someone more knowledgeable than me. wget http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh -O alsa-info.sh && bash alsa-info.sh -- it'll offer to upload the information to their servers for easy sharing if you want, or it can print it. – Espressofa Nov 19 '12 at 01:14
  • http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=403d74ac5b083e74986ee9049811f6542bcfcb16 – Jeggy Nov 19 '12 at 12:26
  • One potential issue is that PulseAudio isn't running. There is some info here about it. You could try starting it with service pulseaudio start, not sure whether that'll work. – Espressofa Nov 19 '12 at 16:23
  • I tried sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter and rebooted and now the sound works but indicator and shortcuts doesn't and the sound settings are empty like the image shows – Jeggy Nov 19 '12 at 17:34
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When you removed pulseaudio, all packages that depended on it will have been removed. I guess this is the issue.

So, reinstalling pulseaudio alone will not do - it only contains the pulseaudio sound server.

On my comp, searching for pulseaudio in software center returned the following installed packages. Try installing them and see if that solves your problem.

libcanberra-pulse pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-utils pulseadio-module-gconf gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulsedsp pulseaudio libsdl1.2debian indicator-sound pulseaudio-module-x11

Of course, you may not need all these packages (gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio for instance).

Alternatively open software center and look into your history. You'll be able to find out what packages were uninstalled along with pulseaudio. Install them and check.

Prasanth S
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  • i got this error 'E: Unable to locate package pulseadio-module-gconf' but then i removed the pulseaudio-module-gconf from there and installed all them successfully, but after rebooting it didn't change anything :( – Jeggy Dec 02 '12 at 18:28
  • I'm just gonna reinstall Ubuntu – Jeggy Dec 02 '12 at 19:24
  • pulseudio-module-gconf seems unimportant. Open Software Center > History > Removals > 'The date of uninstall of pulseaudio' and check if something else was removed. My search result may not have returned all dependent packages. – Prasanth S Dec 02 '12 at 19:24
  • I also tried that, and tried to install them but didn't help either, but i have reinstalled ubuntu now, and now i have 12.10 :D thanks for the help anyway – Jeggy Dec 02 '12 at 21:09
  • Sorry I couldn't solve your problem. But there are some smart people out there you know. You should probably have waited for the bounty to end, i.e., till your question left the featured section. Doesn't matter now that everything is working. Cheers. – Prasanth S Dec 03 '12 at 03:15
  • yeah, sorry and as you can see this question has been on for almost a month and i really needed to fix this and i couldn't wait anymore. i can give you the points but leave the question unaccepted – Jeggy Dec 03 '12 at 07:29
  • That will be unnecessary! All I meant was that now that the question is in the featured section, you'd expect someone to crack it. – Prasanth S Dec 03 '12 at 09:15
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  try this..

open your terminal and type

  sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-sound-applet

it will uninstall the gnome-sound-applet and reinstall it.

farhan
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The simple and quickest way to fix this problem. Open Terminal and then just copy and paste this 

systemctl --user enable pulseaudio && systemctl --user start pulseaudio
Sumeet Deshmukh
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Krilan Shrestha
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Check the basic settings are correct:
System tools > System settings > Sound > Output volume to on

Tom Brossman
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Josh
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