My sound will randomly stop working. pavucontrol shows:
"Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait..."
for a few seconds, then it will return to the normal pavucontrol GUI.
This occurs at random intervals, for a random length of time. Sometimes it will flicker several times per second.
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lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
dmesg has no relevant output.
lsof /dev/snd/* shows only pulseaudio as the proc, which I know is needed.
As as aside, what is the correct way to actually stop pulseaudio?
Following the instructions here:
https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio#Rest ... dio_Daemon
The --kill flag simply doesn't function. Pulseaudio springs back to life immediately.
I would like to know the proper way to stop pulseaudio, and the wiki should be updated with that info.
I read this of course:
https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio#Disa ... _autospawn
But I have no audio client software running, so nothing could be starting the daemon automatically.