Oh, duh, this happens only because I have wine running in firejail. Not sure why pulseaudio 8 decides to break so spectacularly in this scenario, though.
I think this can be closed. I'll file a better bug upstream if this warrants a bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572493 Title: pulseaudio 8.0 drops connections after playing audio in a firejail To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1572493/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs