+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #702935 +++

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome-sound-recorder and click record button
  
Actual results:

No recording anything and the system volume control does not have input volume control.

Expected results:
Record sound

Additional info:
Other software requiring input sound works.

--- Additional comment from Dave Neary on 2012-05-25 09:40:25 EDT ---

I have the same problem on Fedora 17. Skype works fine, and I can see the levels in the "input" tab of the sound settings for the front mic. But sound-recorder just sits there when I hit the record button. It works on Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME 3 installed.

--- Additional comment from Jean-François Fortin Tam on 2012-06-03 14:53:53 EDT ---

It was broken for me a few days ago, but seems to work with the gnome 3.4.2 updates now. Can you confirm if that's the case for you too?

--- Additional comment from Dave Neary on 2012-06-04 03:10:31 EDT ---

Nope - afraid this is still the same. I press the record button, but no recording starts.

I did try to open the volume control from the g-s-c menu, but get the error that "gnome-volume-control is not installed in the path." I believe that's because g-s-c hasn't been updated for GNOME 3 and the new sound preferences yet. So probably unrelated.

Let me see if I can get anything useful out of strace...

--- Additional comment from Dave Neary on 2012-06-04 03:20:22 EDT ---

When I click on the record button the first time, I see no warnings or errors in the console (when running from command line). However, when I reclick the button, I see "(gnome-sound-recorder:6969): GStreamer-WARNING **: Element 'gconfaudiosource' already has parent".

Could that be related?

Other potential leads: I see that all the devices in /dev/snd have permissions 660 and are owned by root:audio, but my user dneary wasn't in the audio group by default. I've added myself now, and there's no difference, but perhaps there's something else along the lines of permissions I need to look at?

strace output was mostly useless.

--- Additional comment from Jean-François Fortin Tam on 2012-06-04 09:25:18 EDT ---

I had the same gstreamer warning as you, now I don't anymore. I thought it was the recent round of gnome updates but maybe it's a driver/system issue. Hm.

--- Additional comment from Dave Neary on 2012-06-04 09:41:06 EDT ---

I just tried running gnome-sound-recorder from the command line as root - recording works.

So it looks like a permissions issue. Now I just need to figure out what exactly I don't have permission to access.

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--- Additional comment from Dave Neary on 2012-08-20 08:59:06 EDT ---

Hi,

Re-opening (since clearly the person who closed the bug didn't read any of the comments). As I said in comment #1, I am experiencing this with Fedora 17. Seems to be an access issue for something.

Dave.