No sound settings available in the settings manager window

Question

Last night I decided to upgrade my system to the latest version of Xubuntu, 13.10. The process went fine, but now I'm facing this strange issue. There is no sound settings available in the settings manager window and the volume indicator looks like when the volume is muted, clicking the indicator being broken as well. The indicator looks like this:

I tried to do a alsa force-reload followed by a restart of the computer, but didn't help. Any thoughts ?

l.e. After some digging I found out that the volume control exists, so this must be a volume indicator issue.

Solution

The release notes for Xubuntu 13.10 include this problem as one of the known issues for that release. (See link to release notes below.)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu

This problem has been fixed in the current development release and a stable release update is currently pending to fix this issue in 13.10

Any prior work-arounds were deemed dangerous to system stability in the Xubuntu team meeting on 2013-12-05. Users were strongly advised from that point forward to not implement them in any manner.

This has now been released to saucy-updates and once a system is updated after install no longer an issue.

Comments

[misterjinx]

thanks, that did the trick. the indicator is back :) though, I'm surprised that the release was left with this kind of bugs.

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you'd not be surprised if you knew how many people there are in the team and how many can actually deal with bugs - come and help xubuntu.org/contribute

[rubo77]

This works also without reboot, logging out and in again suffices

[AJefferiss]

Instead of logging out then back in, you can kill the indicator-sound-service process and then restart the panel using xfce4-panel -r

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You know that you can click the edit button and edit the answer - that's the point of AU :)