Killing the pulseaudio process and starting it again with "pulseaudio -D" fixes the problem.
I searched for related pulseaudio bugs, and did not see any that matched my issue completely. All the ones I saw were for previous released prior to 8.10, and/or were where sound stops working immediately after boot unlike my issue where it stops working randomly. I grepped all of /var/log for "pulseaudio" and noticed these errors which happened when I was not doing anything sound related (this block of errors repeats a few times). I'm not sure if it's related or not but it happened the night before my sound stopped: /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:10:06 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19021]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:10:06 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19023]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:10:06 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19023]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:10:06 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19023]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:47:58 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19630]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:47:58 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19639]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:47:58 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19639]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted /var/log/messages:Jan 19 20:47:58 ubuntudesktop pulseaudio[19639]: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted -- Sound works for a while, then randomly stops working in 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
