Thanks! It appears PulseAudio is repeatedly failing to start and timing out because rtkit-daemon.service is failing to start. And rtkit- daemon.service is failing to start for some reason related to "Bad address" errors occurring on lots of mount operations.
As a workaround, you can tell pulseaudio to avoid using realtime scheduling by adding: realtime-scheduling = no to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Hopefully that will fix pulseaudio but it won't address the root cause. I think your root cause might be related to an impending disk hardware failure, or filesystem corruption. To check for disk hardware failure run app "Disks" and click ≡ then "SMART Data & Self Tests...". Also, please try live booting Ubuntu from USB and see if that avoids the bug. ** Also affects: rtkit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: rtkit (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Summary changed: - [System76 Oryx Pro] No sound (18.10 Cosmic) + [System76 Oryx Pro] No sound for the first 10 minutes (18.10 Cosmic) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798712 Title: [System76 Oryx Pro] No sound for the first 10 minutes (18.10 Cosmic) Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in rtkit package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Installed: 1:12.2-0ubuntu4 I'm getting no sound on boot after upgrade. I tried killing the currently running pulseaudio daemon, then starting it with `-vvvv`, here's what happens: `~$ pulseaudio -vvvv I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: [pulseaudio] main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted D: [pulseaudio] core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.` Although this appears in the terminal, there's still no sound in the settings menu, or in pavucontrol. alsamixer runs just fine, showing that alsa is working. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1798712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp