Bug#689171: pulseaudio: After boot the volume is always reset to 100%

Sat Sep 29 18:34:55 UTC 2012

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6
Severity: important

After a reboot the volume is always rest to 100% even though I rebooted with
the volume on e.g. 50%.
I've tried the vanilla configuration and some customization but without any
result. It worked fine 2 weeks ago.
Then I bought a new computer and reinstalled my system, now it has this volume
problem.

I own a Creative Audigy 2 audio card.

root at intrepid:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor
DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor
PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen
Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series
Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI
Express Root Port 5 (rev c4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H77 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev
04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family
6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus
Controller (rev 04)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 09)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge
(rev 03)
05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-35
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.0-1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.1-7
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.1-7
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-4
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-4
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian7
ii  udev                          175-7

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman             <none>
pn  paprefs           <none>
pn  pavucontrol       <none>
pn  pavumeter         <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed:
; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no
high-priority = yes
nice-level = -11
realtime-scheduling = yes
realtime-priority = 5
; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20
; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)
; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa
; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0
resample-method = speex-float-6
enable-remixing = yes
enable-lfe-remixing = no
flat-volumes = no
; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 1000000
default-sample-format = float32le
default-sample-rate = 48000
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
default-sample-channels = 6
default-channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe
default-fragments = 8
default-fragment-size-msec = 5
; enable-deferred-volume = yes
; deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 8000
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0

-- no debconf information