Default sound output device is never the expected one

Bug #1849157 reported by Douglas Silva
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

According to this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#Primary_sound_output, "if you manually choose an output device in the “Sound” settings panel or a similar utility, that choice should be followed". Well, despite me having explicitly selected the headset as the output device, on every reboot it falls back to the HDMI device. The headset is always plugged in.

I believe this is a regression. On Ubuntu 19.04 and previous versions, it respected my preferences about the sound device.

It is reproducible on both Xorg and Wayland sessions.

Specs:
OS: Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan (GNOME, Ubuntu sessions)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B360M GAMING HD
CPU: Intel Core i3-8100
Graphics: AMD RX 560 (AMDGPU, open source)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 21 12:49:52 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-10-21 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.1-1ubuntu1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Douglas Silva (o-alquimista) wrote :
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Bickhaus (bickhaus) wrote :

I think this is a duplicate of bug 1847570. If you agree, will you mark it as a duplicate?

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1847570, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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