Comment 0 for bug 1886330

I run my "work" VMs and in Xubuntu pulse audio often does not start. In this dump I tried to start music through Firefox and through my media player quodlibet and none of the audio starts.

See attachment with the pulseaudio volume control and quodlibet stuck on time 0:00 like Firefox.

I do not have the problem with plain Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate nor with Ubuntu Studio.

The problem is annoying, because I use Xubuntu for office and communication like Email and the WhatsApp/Firefox/ICE combination and with this bug WhatsApp is useless.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:13.99.1-1ubuntu3.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bertadmin 1490 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c: bertadmin 1490 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: bertadmin 1490 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/timer: bertadmin 1490 f.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jul 5 11:33:48 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-11 (847 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180310)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-03-04 (122 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Virtual Machine
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH