[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 73375] New: Pulse Audio settings lost after reboot / HDMI is set as default

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73375

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 73375
                CC: lennart at poettering.net
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Pulse Audio settings lost after reboot / HDMI is set
                    as default
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux (All)
          Reporter: aaf_fake-freedesktop at yahoo.co.uk
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: pavucontrol
           Product: PulseAudio

My default audio is being sent to my HDMI output instead of my Analog output.
This change happened after upgrading from Xubuntu 13.04 to 13:10 (64-bit). If I
use Pavucontrol to change my settings, they are lost after I reboot. So there
are 2 problems:

1. My default uses the HDMI instead of the Analog output.
2. Changing the above doesn't persist after a reboot.

The pulse-audio Volume Control doesn't have my Analogue Output as a valid
option in the Output Devices tab; it appears only after I select Analogue
Stereo within the Configuration tab. I then choose it as my "fallback" device
(which I think means default device?), but my changes are not saved between
reboots.

After changing the output device to Analogue Stereo using the Configuration
tab, I then have to change the output of the individual program using the
Playback tab, since it uses the current default (HDMI).

I've tried setting my default audio device using pacmd, but it hasn't helped:
my Analogue device does show up as the active sink when I run pacmd list-sinks,
but it's not the selected device within the Volume Control (in the
Configuration tab) so I don't get any sound unless I manually change it using
the GUI.

Here's the output of some pactl commands after I start my PC - note that the
Analog Stereo source is missing:

$ pactl list sources short
0 alsa_input.usb-046d_08b2-01-U0x46d0x8b2.analog-mono module-alsa-card.c s16le
1ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
1 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo.monitor module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch
44100Hz SUSPENDED

$ pactl list sinks short
0 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz
SUSPENDED

After I open the pulse-audio Volume Control and select the "Analog Stereo" item
from the Configuration tab, running the same commands again gives:

$ pactl list sources short
0 alsa_input.usb-046d_08b2-01-U0x46d0x8b2.analog-mono module-alsa-card.c s16le
1ch 44100Hz IDLE
1 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo.monitor module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch
44100Hz IDLE
2 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor module-alsa-card.c s16le
2ch 44100Hz IDLE

$ pactl list sinks short
0 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz
IDLE
1 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch
44100Hz IDLE

The Analogue Stereo source is present and I can hear sound through my PC's
speakers. But when I reboot my PC these settings are lost, and I have to do
this over again. I wouldn't mind so much if I could fix this from the command
line, but I haven't found a way to do that.

I originally raised this bug on Ubuntu's Launchpad, so you might find some
useful information from other users there:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1256511

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