Bug#852870: gnome-sound-recorder: trying to record sound gives ' Your audio capture settings are invalid'

[Austin English]

Package: gnome-sound-recorder
Version: 3.21.92-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Running 'gnome-sound-recorder' and click 'Record'

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Click 'Record'

   * What was the outcome of this action?

'Your audio settings are invalid'

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Sound to be recorded.

Pulseaudio is installed, and other applications using the mic work (e.g., I can do audio/video conferences and people hear me), so sound/recording do work on this machine.

This was originally reported in Tails, see https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/11780. This report is from a Debian unstable installation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-sound-recorder depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.36.4-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.50.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0                  1.10.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0                         1.10.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.22.7-2
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.40.3-3
ii  gjs                                          1.46.0-1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad                     1.10.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base                    1.10.2-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good                    1.10.2-1

gnome-sound-recorder recommends no packages.

gnome-sound-recorder suggests no packages.

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