pulseaudio keeps crashing and the audiom drops out

[Grizzly(Francis Smit)]

1). 21:48:17 ⌂197% grizzlysmit@killashandra:~ 4m23s $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
21:54:30 ⌂217% grizzlysmit@killashandra:~ 2s $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
Codename: artful

2). $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:10.0-2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:10.0-2ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:10.0-2ubuntu3 500
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3). I expected pulse to just keep running like it always did under previous releases of Ubuntu

4). It keeps dropping out after a day or so no sound and settings (gnome-control-center sound) to it cannot connect to it running pulseaudio& in a shell fixes it

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:10.0-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Nov 6 21:44:08 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-24 (104 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-20 (16 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/06/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A18
dmi.board.name: 0G261D
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 15
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA18:bd08/06/2013:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex960:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0G261D:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct15:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 960
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Grizzly,

If pulseaudio is crashing then please look in /var/crash/ for relevant crash files and if found then upload them using this command:

  ubuntu-bug /PATH/TO/FILE.crash

Also please review automatic crash reports from your machine using this command:

  xdg-open "https://errors.ubuntu.com/user/"`sudo cat /var/lib/whoopsie/whoopsie-id`

And tell us here the links of any of those that are relevant.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]