I just realised that removing chrome remote desktop config isn't enough. Like I mentioned on my PC i had the same issue. I had to remove .config/pulse too and restart to make it work
-- 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/1833527 Title: in gnome settings audio section does not see any sound card Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: in gnome settings audio section does not see any sound card. if i run alsamixer it can detect the sound card and all works fine. in gnome sound settings everything seems to be disabled. I have excatly same problem on PC where configuration is completely different than my laptops one. All the problems started recently, after upgrading to 19.04 some time later one of the updates destroyed all sound ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:12.2-2ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-17.18-generic 5.0.8 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D2', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D10p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D9p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Jun 20 12:28:49 2019 PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio Symptom: audio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-29 (51 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/09/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: UX550GEX.302 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: UX550GEX dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUX550GEX.302:bd10/09/2018:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnZenBookPro15UX550GEX_UX580GE:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnUX550GEX:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0: dmi.product.family: ZenBook Pro dmi.product.name: ZenBook Pro 15 UX550GEX_UX580GE dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1833527/+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