Graceful handling of PulseAudio problems doesn't always kick in, but instead the applet crashes, taking the whole plasma shell into an infinite crash-restart loop. The bug doesn't occur immediately when PulseAudio encounters, but when the applet is initialized (plasma restart or applet added). This particular instance comes from a misconfigured Docker container. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create Docker container with `--privileged -v /dev/dri:/dev/dri:rw -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm:rw -v /run/user/1000/pulse:/run/user/1000/pulse:rw` 2. Enable network access to PA via paprefs 3. Run inside Docker `PULSE_SERVER=$HOST paplay $SOUND.wav` 4. Restart plasma `kbuildsycoca5 && kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell` Actual Results: PA goes into a broken state, Plasma shell crashes while starting, Plasma shell is restarted, Plasma shell crashes while starting, etc. Expected Results: PA goes into a broken state, PA applet doesn't work, Plasma works. Workaround: when Plasma gets into the crash loop, issue `pulseaudio -k`. If that is not enough, then manually restart it again. Similar to bug 353177
Created attachment 101187 [details] The console log of what seems to be the first crash in chain.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 369073 ***