Comment 12 for bug 400682

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 400682] Re: No sound after upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jamie Strandboge<email address hidden> wrote:
> Jul 18 15:56:23 severus pulseaudio[18671]: alsa-source.c: We were woken up with POLLIN set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

Those messages are not related to your audio being muted, however.

Try disabling autospawn temporarily:
echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf && killall pulseaudio &&
speaker-test -c2 -Dplug:front

(To revert to stock behavior, just rm ~/.pulse/client.conf)