Bug#913102: pulseaudio does not restore correct mic/speaker state

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:27 PM Alexandre Vaissiere <avaiss at fmiw.org> wrote:

> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 12.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * Context
>
> - I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T480.
> - I have the following in my ~/.config/pulse/default.pa:
>
>   $ cat ~/.config/pulse/default.pa
>   .include /etc/pulse/default.pa
>   load-module module-switch-on-connect
>
> - I generally mute my mic and speakers, unmuting them only if needed.
>
> * Expected behaviour
>
> When I restart my machine, I expect that the sound/mic state is properly
> restored:
> - If sound/mic was muted at shutdown, I expect for it to be muted at
> startup,
> - If sound/mic was unmuted at shutdown, I expect for it to be unmuted at
> startup.
>
> * Current behaviour
>
> Currently, whatever the state was at shutdown, mic and sound are *unmuted*
> at
> startup.
>
> * Extra infomation
>
> Now it almost work. When logging in my session at startup, the leds
> indicating
> muteness are on, but after some seconds are off again. As if something got
> executed after the restore by pulseaudio, and unmuted the mic/sound.
>
> Are provided two files:
>
> - pulseaudio-start1.log are the log in debug of pulseaudio of a first
> startup.
>   As soon as possible, the mic and sound were muted using the appropriate
>   shortcut (Fn+F1 and Fn+F4). Then the machine is rebooted. The logs were
>   fetched using grep 'pulseaudio\[1865\]' /var/log/daemon.log after the
> reboot
>
> - pulseaudio-start2.log are the log in debug of pulseaudio on the second
>   startup, where the sound/mic are first muted then, 5 or 10s later
>   automatically unmuted for an unknown reason. The logs were fetched using
>   journalctl --user-unit pulseaudio.
>

This doesn't look like pulseaudio, but that someone is changing the mute
level. The first potential culprit is gnome-shell. Does this problem happen
if you log into a console instead of gnome?
-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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