seems like pulse was fighting with pipewire; not sure what I did to clean it up but appears to be working better now
-- 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/1965647 Title: pulseaudio gets stuck after launching firefox Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: after updating to jammy, pulseaudio appears to get stuck after opening firefox. I can play an audio file using mplayer fine, then I open firefox (either snap or deb version), then it fails to play the same audio file and prints out "Audio device got stuck!" killing pulseaudio (and having systemd user session restart it) restores sound in mplayer ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:15.99.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-23.23-generic 5.15.27 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: jbarnett 3283 F.... wireplumber /dev/snd/controlC0: jbarnett 3283 F.... wireplumber jbarnett 7684 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/seq: jbarnett 3278 F.... pipewire CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sat Mar 19 15:29:11 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-17 (945 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190305.1) SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-03-18 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 03/25/2021 dmi.bios.release: 1.15 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.15.1 dmi.board.name: 0N338G dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 31 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.15.1:bd03/25/2021:br1.15:svnDellInc.:pnXPS159575:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0N338G:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct31:cvr:sku080D: dmi.product.family: XPS dmi.product.name: XPS 15 9575 dmi.product.sku: 080D dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1965647/+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