Comment 8 for bug 1879989

Installing libcanberra-pulse indeed fixes the problem. Thanks! Flagging this as "Invalid" seems dubious. Shouldn't libcanberra-pulse be a dependency for gnome-control-center or the base sound system?

Sound used to work fine. Given the number of sound devices I always used the gnome control center to switch the right device and check it works before starting Zoom, etc. The checking failed after the latest security updates. After a couple of hours I discovered sound was actually working properly and it was just the test in the control center failing. After running `gnome-control-center sound` on the terminal I got the message "Failed to play sound: No such driver" and found this post ...