Public bug reported: Sometimes when i start up firefox in the morning i can't hear any audio. Or sometimes a page that wants to play audio will freeze, waiting. When these happen i'll launch pavucontrol next and it'll say "Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..." and just keep waiting. i look for the pulseaudio process, it's there as usual. Even so i just launch an additional pulseaudio process, and then pavucontrol is immediately all happy. Firefox might also immediately become all happy, or less often i'll also need to restart firefox before i can play audio.
i usually shut off my computer at night. Starting it up each morning, manifestations as described above might be separated by a couple weeks, or might happen a couple times within a week. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:11.1-1ubuntu7.4 [modified: usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/paths/steelseries-arctis-7-output-mono.conf] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-88.88-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-88-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: Date: Sat Sep 5 16:45:50 2020 ProcEnviron: LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/30/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A10 dmi.board.name: 0PU052 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 15 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd04/30/2008:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex755:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PU052:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct15:cvr: dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 755 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1894400 Title: Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1894400/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs