no sound anywhere

[Henk Kroeze]

No problems up until recently.
After upgrading to 23.04 (and then to 23.10) I have no more sound anywhere.
I have investigated the usual suspects (I'm a Ubuntu newbie though): alas, I found nothing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-10.10-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: henkie 2542 F.... wireplumber
 /dev/snd/seq: henkie 2525 F.... pipewire
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Nov 7 18:52:16 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-19 (567 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20220223)
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to mantic on 2023-11-04 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/30/2009
dmi.bios.release: 1.8
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A18
dmi.board.name: 0F327M
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.ec.firmware.release: 1.8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA18:bd10/30/2009:br1.8:efr1.8:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0F327M:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:sku:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Henk Kroeze (henkiee)]

I would really appreciate any indication of progress w.r.t. this bug report.
Thanks very much.