Bug 741461

I don't know whether this should be a separate bug.
I just upgraded to fc 15 and then 16Beta.
It appeared that mic was working in 15 (but all sorts of other things caused me to move on).
In 16 things seem worse than even in 14.
/var/log/messages shows this during boot
Oct  5 07:00:39 number11 kernel: [   17.679473] input: HDA Intel Mic at Sep UNKNOWN Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input11
Oct  5 07:00:39 number11 kernel: [   17.679700] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input12
Oct  5 07:00:39 number11 kernel: [   17.679810] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input13

When I do system settings - sound
I see nothing under the hardware tab, nothing under input and under output
only "Dummy output".
On the other hand, youtube plays on the speakers.

What else should I look for and report?

thanks for testing the newer releases.

I'm not sure how pulseaudio could be reporting nothing and have audio still work.
Perhaps Lennert has some ideas.  This still might be a kernel bug, but I'm at a loss to explain it right now.

Now I'm up to 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64
You tube sound no longer works.
BTW, in gmail video chat settings I see:
	
  1 You don't have a camera...
(I did in fedora14)
  2 You don't have a microphone...
(I did in fedora14)

When I look in settings under sound, hardware shows only one, internal audio 
1 output/1 input, profile shows a bunch of choices.  However, for most of them, 
test speakers causes the window to disappear.

However, when I run from command line to see what's going on:
 gnome-control-center --overview
I get no crashes.  I do get a few of these:
(gnome-control-center:10991): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: Default sink stream not found
The last two choices under profile, analog stereo output and analog stereo duplex even generate sound when I do test speakers.  (The others, starting with digital stereo do not.)
Furthermore, the mic seems to work in the input tab.
And in the sound effects tab, I hear the samples.

Note that the above gnome control center is run as root while the others,
from the menus, are run as a user.
Maybe I should login as root to get this stuff to work!

When I run firefox as root (from command line!) and test settings in gmail video chat, nothing works, but I get a lot of interesting output:

 No bp log location saved, using default.
[000:078] Browser XEmbed support present: 1
[000:078] Browser toolkit is Gtk2.
[000:079] Using Gtk2 toolkit

(npviewer.bin:11854): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
[000:089] Warning(clientchannel.cc:561): Unreadable or no port file.  Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[000:091] Warning(clientchannel.cc:404): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection
[000:091] Warning(optionsfile.cc:23): Load: Could not open file, err=2
[000:091] Warning(clientchannel.cc:531): Failed to get GoogleTalkPlugin path. Trying default.
[000:095] Started GoogleTalkPlugin, path=/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin
[000:095] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start...
[001:183] Read port file, port=50136
[001:196] Initiated connection to GoogleTalkPlugin
[001:284] Socket connection established
[001:284] ScheduleOnlineCheck: Online check in 5000ms
[001:385] Got cookie response, socket is authorized
[001:388] AUTHORIZED; socket handshake complete
[006:303] HandleOnlineCheck: Starting check
[006:303] HandleOnlineCheck: OK; current state: 3
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
  ... more of last line
(npviewer.bin:11957): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
  ... 150 more of last line
(npviewer.bin:11957): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

(npviewer.bin:11957): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_insert_internal: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused
  ... more of last line
(plugin-container:11933): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_foreach: assertion `version == hash_table->version' failed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_SetWindow() wait for reply: Connection closed
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2269):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2219):invoke_NPP_SetWindow: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2269):invoke_NPP_GetValue: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
@@*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING:(../src/npw-wrapper.c:2150):invoke_NPP_Destroy: assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))

/var/log/messages shows a bunch of complaints like this:
 kernel: [726415.817171] type=1400 audit(1318990127.254:55): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=11881 comm="npviewer.bin" name="profiles.ini" dev=dm-0 ino=3915962 scontext=unconfined ...

I tried logging in as root and running firefox as root.
In that case gmail video chat shows both mic and speaker working, but not camera.
The difference is the user running X windows.  
I'd like the camera to work too, but is that part of the sound system?

Perhaps this output from dmesg is relevant?

[   39.564329] type=1400 audit(1322426460.001:4): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=1163 comm="pulseaudio" name=".esd_auth" dev=dm-0 ino=3915903 scontext=system_u:system_r:pulseaudio_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file
[   39.565618] type=1400 audit(1322426460.002:5): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=1163 comm="pulseaudio" name=".esd_auth" dev=dm-0 ino=3915903 scontext=system_u:system_r:pulseaudio_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file
[   39.567563] type=1400 audit(1322426460.005:6): avc:  denied  { lock } for  pid=1163 comm="pulseaudio" path="/root/.esd_auth" dev=dm-0 ino=3915903 scontext=system_u:system_r:pulseaudio_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file
[   39.571991] type=1400 audit(1322426460.008:7): avc:  denied  { lock } for  pid=1163 comm="pulseaudio" path="/root/.esd_auth" dev=dm-0 ino=3915903 scontext=system_u:system_r:pulseaudio_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file

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