On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:04:36PM -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote: > Package: randomsound > Version: 0.2-5+b2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > Installing randomsound prevents PulseAudio from working correctly at the next > reboot: the sound card is no longer detected, and PulseAudio output is set to > "Dummy Output". > > Running fuser /dev/snd/* reveals arecord, child process of randomsound, is > keeping the sound card busy. Stopping randomsound will get rid of the arecord > process and will allow PulseAudio to correctly grab the sound card, but at the > next reboot the same action will have to be repeated. The only way to get rid > of that problem for good is uninstalling randomsound.
I had the same problem. Given that the bug report in Ubuntu[1] is from 2010, I think randomsound should conflict with pulseaudio. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/randomsound/+bug/590780 Thomas
