#990013 pulseaudio: Volume reset to mute each time I (un)plug my speakers

Package:
pulseaudio
Source:
pulseaudio
Description:
PulseAudio sound server
Submitter:
Ralf Jung
Date:
2021-06-21 12:15:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#990013#5
Date:
2021-06-17 19:39:07 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I have recently made the mistake of muting my laptop speakers in PulseAudio.
Ever since then, each time I (un)plug my external headphones, or (dis)connect by
Bluetooth headset, the sound mutes again. I am unmuting it each time, of course,
but Pulseaudio does not remember that and resets it back to muted the next time.

This already happened a few months ago, but then stopped with a Pulseaudio
update. Now the problem seems to be back. I am using KDE as my desktop
environment; I do not know how to begin debugging if KDE or Pulseaudio is doing
the muting here.

I tried following the logging instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log, but that does not seem to work as
intended:
(   0.010|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
(   0.011|   0.000) E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
(Yes, I did put the "autospawn = no" as described. It seems to have no effect.)

Kind regards,
Ralf

#990013#10
Date:
2021-06-21 12:04:54 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I am not entirely sure what happened, but the issue went away again when I
connected by bluetooth headset the next time. Very strange.
I guess I will avoid muting my speakers again...

Kind regards,
Ralf