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Tessa (unit3) wrote : Re: no sound after 18.10 upgrade

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}
[...]
```