8.10, sound stopped working after radio stream crash or vlc package install

[hannascott]

Installed Kubuntu 8.10 about a week ago. Had no problems, except for a little quirk with the sound, if booting with earphones plugged in(unplug replug and everything worked fine). I Have no sw installed that does not come from the package list.

Yesterday I installed the vlc package, watched a movie with sound, then I listened to music radio streaming via firefox. The sound got stuck in a 1 second loop, I rebooted, and now I have no sound. After reboot I could still start aumix, but the sound did not respond to the controls. When trying to run vlc I get the following messages about alsa:

ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3513:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
ALSA lib conf.c:3985:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: Filen eller katalogen finns inte
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
[00000462] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp)
[00000462] main audio output error: couldn't find a filter for the conversion
[00000462] main audio output error: couldn't create audio output pipeline

If I tried to open alsamixer I get this message:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

lsmod showed no sign of snd modules at all.

"strace -eopen alsamixer" gives the following output:
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/lib/libasound.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/share/alsa/bluetooth.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/dev/snd/controlC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/dev/aloadC0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory

I have noted the following folders are missing:
/dev/snd
/proc/asound
/usr/include/alsa

Looked in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. And found this row "options snd-intel8x0m index=-2"

dmesg | grep -i alsa gives no output

This is what I have looked at and tried:
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$ sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules
$ sudo echo "options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba" | sudo tee -a $ /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
$ sudo reboot

$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:215: no soundcard found...

$ lspci -v
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Inventec Corporation Device 0040
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

$ cat /dev/sndstat
cat: /dev/sndstat: Filen eller katalogen finns inte

$ sudo modprobe snd-<tab> only gives me snd-bt-sco (which seems to be some kindof bluetooth headset support... (?)

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
$ sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base alsa-base alsa-utils
$ sudo reboot

$ aplay -l
$ aplay: device_list:215: no soundcard found...

$ lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

Then I tried to reinstall alsa drivers.

#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gettext libncurses5-dev linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo mkdir -p /usr/src/alsa
cd /usr/src/alsa
sudo wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/lib/a...1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/utils...1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-lib-1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf alsa-utils-1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo rm alsa-driver-1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo rm alsa-lib-1.0.15.tar.bz2
sudo rm alsa-utils-1.0.15.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.15
sudo ./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ../alsa-lib-1.0.15
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ../alsa-utils-1.0.15
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
sudo echo "options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba position_fix=0 enable=yes
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
sudo mv /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/ubuntu/media/snd-hda-intel/snd-hda-intel.ko /tmp
sudo depmod -a
sudo reboot

After reboot, still no start-up sound. I tried www.last.fm again, still no sound. Got a pop-up saying there was a kmix problem. Tried to start kmix and got:

kmix(6000) Mixer::setGlobalMaster: Mixer::setGlobalMaster() card= "ALSA::HDA_Intel:1" control= "Master:0"
kmix(6000) Mixer::getGlobalMasterMD: Mixer::masterCardDevice() returns 0 (no globalMaster)

aplay -l still says "no sound card found"

tried opening alsamixer, but it says:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

Now not even aumix works.


UPDATE: 2008-11-07 an hour later:

aptitude search alsa

started removing the packages installed.

Got to package libsdl1.2debian-alsa and tried:
sudo apt-get remove libsdl1.2debian-alsa and got this output(got it in swedish so I'm translating):

Since you asked for a single action is is likely the package cannot be installed/removed and a bugreport should be submitted. The following information may help resolve the problem:

The following package has the non-satisfied dependencies:

kdebase-runtime: dependent on: phonon-backend-xine (>= 4:4.1.2-0ubuntu6) but it will not be installed/removed or
phonon-backend
phonon: dependent on: phonon-backend-gstreamer but it will not be installed/removed or
phonon-backend
E: Broken package