[pulseaudio-discuss] no sound after rebooting

[Andrey Semashev]

On 6/20/19 3:40 PM, Adrian Mariano wrote:
> Starting in Ubuntu 18.10, and continuing in 19.04, after I reboot my
> computer I have no sound.  My sound device doesn't show up at all in
> the mixer.  I just have a "dummy" device (that's what just happened)
> or sometimes I get the wrong device (NVidia) showing up but the right
> device (onboard Intel) missing.
> 
> Running "sudo alsa force-reload" fixes this issue, until the next reboot.
> 
> I filed this as a bug with Ubuntu
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1828136
> 
> and somebody had me do various troubleshooting, but when he told me to
> modify pulse-client.conf so that a log file would be created, I did
> not get a log file.  At this point, he told me I should post here for
> help with this issue.

See if you're affected by this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timidity/+bug/1793640