[SOLVED] no sound in sound&video aps., flash still sounds after todays 8.04 update

[Vitorio Okio]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:12:24 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:

> As subject says, after today's update of my Ubuntu 8.04 all of my sound
> & video apps (VLS, Totem, Rythmbox, etc.) lost sound completely.
> 
> I still can watch videos and listen to music on Youtube in my Firefox.
> Thus Flash is fine.
> 
> I do not remember what exactly was updated but it seems to me there were
> some sound & video related libraries.
> 
> Alsamixer GUI applet shows correct hardware and all channels are
> enabled. PulseAudio applet shows the hardware and software (alsa is in
> use) correctly as well.
> 
> Boy, it's frustrating. This is LTS release. Why an update should brake
> it so badly?
> 
> Any suggestions, please?  Your help is appreciated.

Solved.

There were 2 X-s running concurrently. My wife, on her side, had Firefox 
opened on a page containing Flash video, which was just paused. Thus 
Flash kept alsa not accessible for anything else. As soon as I closed 
Firefox the sound get back.

Stupid thing took me over an hour of troubleshooting, googling, and 
looking there and there. 

Well, I've learnt my lesson pretty hard way. :-)

And now I feel bad for blaming wonderful Ubuntu. :-(  Sorry folks.