Dear Maintainer,

Sometimes pulseaudio mutes.

Restarting server is a workaround.

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Could you attach a verbose log of the problem happening?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

I still find it difficult to find the problem time. Could you please
get a new log, and when the problem happens, invoke a single paplay
command? Also, while pulseaudio is still muted please run `pactl info`
and attach that output.

I also forgot to ask, does using pavucontrol work to restore the volume?

For the record, I have also observed this behavior in jessie. Pulseaudio
will mute when coming out of suspend, but only occasionally. I'll try to
get some logs.

Dear all,

I've been having a similar issue to the one describing which I've traced
to the use of 'module-suspend-on-idle'.

My Debian release and package version are quite different but as it
might be the same issue I'm adding some information to this bug before
submitting a new one.

Debian release: bullseye/sid
pulseaudio: 14.1-1
kernel module: snd_soc_skl

Symptoms: whenever audio is not being played (or pavucontrol is not open
(*)) the volume get slowly reduced (every few seconds). Once at zero it
continues to try to reduce the volume indefinitely (I see the
notifications on screen as if I had used the volume keys). If more than
one sink has non-zero volume it will cycle through each of the sinks,
setting all of them to zero and keep trying to reduce the volume.

Workaround: commenting out the line 'load-module module-suspend-on-idle'
in the 'default.pa' file stopped this behavior.


Please let me know if you think I should submit a separate bug or if you
would like me to submit more information under this one.

Kind regards,
  Ricardo