[pulseaudio-discuss] no sound after rebooting

[Adrian Mariano]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 05:28:04PM +0300, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> 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

It looks like this is the explanation.  I removed timidity, rebooted,
and sound was working without any difficulties.