Comment 40 for bug 1799007

I've already tried reinstalling pulseaudio, and it doesn't do anything. I can't really afford to reinstall my work laptop right now, I really need it to just, you know, work. ;)

but I also need working sound so I'm not really sure what to do. is there really no way to debug pulseaudio and why it's broken? if not, are there supported alternate audio servers for ubuntu which will work with everything?