No sound and flash videos play super fast after daily update

Question

I just updated my 11.10 Ubuntu from the regular auto updater. After I restarted my laptop I have no sound and the videos in YouTube (and other websites) play super fast.

Not sure if it has something to do with the case, but since last night I get hd0 out of disk error before the grub screen and on the login screen I have some delay before I can type my password. In the console I see errors like these: status: {DRDY err}.

I could say the errors have something to do with the sound problem and the flash player, but if this happened when I got the hd0 error, not now after the regular daily update.

Here is the update history log from /var/log/apt/history.log

Start-Date: 2012-04-03  10:04:39 
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-commit-packages' sender=':1.71'
Upgrade: python-aptdaemon.gtkwidgets:amd64 (0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
libvlc5:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1), 
python-aptdaemon:amd64 (0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
vlc-nox:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1), 
vlc-plugin-notify:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1), 
aptdaemon:amd64 (0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
python-aptdaemon-gtk:amd64 (0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
vlc:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1), 
aptdaemon-data:amd64 (0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
vlc-data:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1),  
python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets:amd64, 0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1,0.43+bzr697-0ubuntu1.2), 
libvlccore5:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1), 
vlc-plugin-pulse:amd64 (2.0.1+git20120329+r134-0~r35~oneiric1, 2.0.1+git20120402+r146-0~r36~oneiric1)
End-Date: 2012-04-03  10:05:15

Solution 1

So the solution found on, Flash video plays very fast without any sound, and that is to install Pulse Audio Volume Control pavucontrol

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

now run pavucontrol,

pavucontrol

go to the Configuration tab and turn off the sound devices you don't use, most likely your video card is being listed as a sound device. Happy flash viewing!

Solution 2

pavucontrol works partially to me. By setting Profile to off just the video stream no more fast but audio still doesn't will output anymore.

Comments

[pearleye]

After some time looking at the update history log I think the problem is in VLC, because this is the only player I use and have on my laptop. Also I use the VLC plugin to display movies in the browser. Does it have something to do with the flash player? But in other side there is no sense, because I don't have system sound, so the problem cannot be only in VLC

[Mateo]

does this have anything to do with it - shcherbyna.com/?p=946

[pearleye]

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol this solved the issue. After I ran the pavucontrol in Configuration I have my video card listed. I disabled it as sound device which fixed the fast flash videos and the sound issue. Thanks! Make your comment an answer so I can accept it.

[pearleye]

The error is gone, no idea how that happened.

[Yehonatan Tsirolnik]

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[Björn Lindqvist]

Worked for me too, in 2016. Card is RSS 880 Audio [Radeon HD 4200 Series].