SUMMARY In 5.19 KDE version all works. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Plug headphones OBSERVED RESULT No sound, no sound output devices. EXPECTED RESULT Sound on, sound output devices not empty. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Unplug headphones OBSERVED RESULT Sound on, sound output devices not empty. EXPECTED RESULT No sound, no sound output devices. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.21 KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-66-generic OS Type: 64-bit Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Could be the same root cause as Bug 434225. Or it could be a bug in PulseAudio itself, such as https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/939.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 434225 ***
helps me pulseaudio -k also try rm -r ~/.config/pulse/
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Could be the same root cause as Bug 434225. Or it could be a bug in > PulseAudio itself, such as > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/939. and this https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1159
Since those commands help, it seems certain that this is a bug in PulseAudio itself, and not anything in KDE code. One of those two, perhaps.