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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - Starting pavucontrol mutes sound"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93108">93108</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Starting pavucontrol mutes sound
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>PulseAudio
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>pavucontrol
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>flocculant@gmx.co.uk
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>lennart@poettering.net
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        <pre>Using Xubuntu 16.04.

pavucontrol              - 3.0-3build1
pulseaudio               - 1:7.1-1ubuntu1
pulseaudio-module-x11    - 1:7.1-1ubuntu1
pulseaudio-utils         - 1:7.1-1ubuntu1 

Start up pavucontrol and the sound mutes momentarily - perhaps 1s or so

reported it externally - affects me with C-Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio]
driver: snd_virtuoso

seen by someone else with Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel

<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pavucontrol/+bug/1504175">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pavucontrol/+bug/1504175</a></pre>
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