Thanks for letting me know. I just checked and I do have 240-4 installed now for udev (and libudev1). So i timed a restart of pulseaudio through systemd again and this is the result: $ time systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service real 0m1.660s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.000s
So it seems like it's no longer timing out (again). When I reported this, I had version 240-1 installed for udev. If you think that this confirms that this problem was caused by udev, I guess this can be closed. I'll remove my manual timeout again and let you know if it happens again. Thanks for your help again. On Friday, January 18, 2019, 7:10:21 PM GMT+1, Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 10:48 AM Riaas Mokiem <ria...@yahoo.com> wrote: Package: pulseaudio Version: 12.2-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, the problem previously reported in #910512 has appeared again. That bug went away by itself after a later system update. Now the problem has occurred again, again after a system update. However, during this system update pulseaudio itself was not updated so the problem seems to be related to how pulseaudio interacts with the system. The most noteworthy part of the update was the linux kernel upgrade from 4.18 to 4.19 and systemd from 239-15 to 240-1. Have you tried again with udev 240-4? This could be caused by a bug solved in udev 240-4. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler