other report in the wild: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1085176/sound- device-lost-after-update-to-18-10
note that their debugging steps don't even work for me, running pacmd just gets a complaint that the pulse daemon isn't running, even though it looks like systemd intentionally started it in non-daemon mode: ``` $ pacmd list-cards No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. $ pstree [...] |-systemd-+-(sd-pam) | |-at-spi-bus-laun-+-dbus-daemon | | `-3*[{at-spi-bus-laun}] | |-dbus-daemon | |-dconf-service---2*[{dconf-service}] | |-evolution-addre---5*[{evolution-addre}] | |-evolution-calen---9*[{evolution-calen}] | |-evolution-sourc---3*[{evolution-sourc}] | |-gnome-screensav---3*[{gnome-screensav}] | |-gnome-shell-cal---5*[{gnome-shell-cal}] | |-goa-daemon---3*[{goa-daemon}] | |-goa-identity-se---3*[{goa-identity-se}] | |-gvfs-afc-volume---3*[{gvfs-afc-volume}] | |-gvfs-goa-volume---2*[{gvfs-goa-volume}] | |-gvfs-gphoto2-vo---2*[{gvfs-gphoto2-vo}] | |-gvfs-mtp-volume---2*[{gvfs-mtp-volume}] | |-gvfs-udisks2-vo---2*[{gvfs-udisks2-vo}] | |-gvfsd-+-gvfsd-trash---2*[{gvfsd-trash}] | | `-2*[{gvfsd}] | |-gvfsd-fuse---5*[{gvfsd-fuse}] | |-gvfsd-metadata---2*[{gvfsd-metadata}] | |-pulseaudio---{pulseaudio} [...] ``` -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799007 Title: no sound after 18.10 upgrade To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1799007/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs