Hello Jennifer, while I can't help you fix the particular pulseaudio problem, I might have an alternative for you, since you are already using the bookworm distribution.
Try installing the package pipewire-pulse. It contains a pulseaudio daemon replacement, which works without any problems for me. As I understand it, pipewire is (among other things) the designated successor of pulseaudio. You might have to disable the pulseaudio daemon (through systemd?). I have even uninstalled pulseaudio just now that I was looking at that topic, I will inform you, if audio is gone after next boot... Regards, Christian Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems > to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC, > or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when > listening to audio through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After > a crash, > the Pulseaudio Volume Control will give a "connecting to Pulseaudio" > error. Restarting with either "pulseaudio --start" or "pulseaudio -k" > will hang for > 10-20 seconds, and then "work", in that "ps" will show Pulse is running, > but I still can't play music (through anything), and the volume app > shows the > same error. This will last a few minutes, until sound starts again. > > This was on Bullseye; I recently upgraded to Bookworm (for other > reasons, though I hoped it would help with this), and it's still > happening, although > now "pulseaudio --start" will respond almost instantly. However, it > still takes a few minutes for sound to come back. > > Where do I look for help on this? /var/log/messages shows warnings about > a deprecated module, but nothing more serious than that. I'm not sure where > these crashes might be recorded, or what else to do. But having sound is > very important to me, so I'd love to fix this!
