Who knows what pulseaudio developers were smoking when they wrote that code. I'm glad you got this solved for now. I hope it's permanently solved for you too.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Daniel Fishman wrote: > The first two things didn't work, but while I worked on a switch to > pipewire (with a limited success, since pipewire is experimental > in the current stable and misses important features that I need > and which are already available in pulseaudio), I stumbled upon > a workaround which fixed the problem in my case: > > https://forum.manjaro.org/t/internal-speakers-jack-detected-but-no-audio-comes-out/33380/4 > > I still don't completely understand why things are related, but > this solves the problem - and everything still works properly > after USB dongle is connected. > > > On 3/7/22 21:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Three things to do: > > 1) pulseaudio --cleanup-shm > > reboot and see if you get any better results. > > 2) if 1 fails in the user directory rm -fr ~/.config/pulseaudio then > > reboot and check for better results. > > 3) if 2 fails, remove pulseaudio from the machine and think about > > installing and running pipewire if alsa really needs that much management. > > Ways exist to run firefox without pulseaudio. If memory serves pulseaudio > > firefox may do this as a single command. > > > >