Comment 3 for bug 1214633

I'm not hearing any sound with arecord while I'm still able to hear a very quiet sound with avconv. Here is the terminal output:

sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ arecord /tmp/test.wav
Recording WAVE '/tmp/test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
^CAborted by signal Interrupt...
arecord: pcm_read:2031: read error: Interrupted system call

After installing pulseaudio and pulseaudio-utils my system doesn't play any sound anymore. If I remove pulseaudio it is playing again but parecord will then logically fail with a message:

sworddragon@ubuntu:~$ parecord /tmp/test.wav
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused