It sounds like you might have a local config file specifying HDMI as your default sink. Try removing:
~/.config/pulse and then reboot. Separately, I notice your system seems to be some months out of date. Please update it by running: sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade and then reboot. Once up to date please run: apport-collect 1864287 to automatically send us more information about the machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864287 Title: pulseaudio still trying to reproduce audio to HDMI without the HDMI cable connected Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Yesterday I was using the HDMI cable to duplicate the monitor in the tv and play sound with the tv by selecting HDMI exit sound in ubuntu settings. With the pc turned off I removed the HDMI from the tv but ubuntu doesn't automatically set the exit sound to the default till in the settings there is only that option and till I selected it, ubuntu was still trying to reproduce the audio via HDMI... Also rebooting the system the problem persists. Also by reloading pulseaudio the problem persists. The only solution was installing a third-party program to switch correctly to the default audio exit... lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Release: 18.04 apt-cache policy pulseaudio: pulseaudio: Installato: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 Candidato: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.4 Tabella versione: 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.4 500 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages *** 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.2 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:11.1-1ubuntu7 500 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1864287/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
