Bug#904098: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio only provides Dummy Output until timidity is killed

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: reassign -1 timidity

Reassigning to timidity as it is claiming the device for itself. Quoting
full bug below for context.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:34:02 -0400 Sam Imberman <simberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 11.1-5
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I'm reporting what appears to be a problem with either pulseaudio,
timidity, or
> both. The nature of the bug is that pulseaudio does not work until I kill
> timidity. Notably pavucontrol shows no outputs, and GNOME's sound control
panel
> shows only a dummy output. If I execute 'service timidity stop', then
suddenly
> audio output works fine again.
>
> The computer is a Thinkpad T430.
>
> I'm a longtime intermediate-level Debian Testing user but this is the
first
> time I'm
> reporting what seems to be pretty clearly a bug, so please bear with me!
I have
> seen references to similar bugs on various forums, but I didn't find
anything
> in the Debian bug tracker.
>
> I am attaching a debug-level log of pulseaudio (sudo journalctl -b | grep
> pulse), but please let me know if any logfiles would be interesting.
>
>
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
> ii  adduser                      3.117
> ii  libasound2                   1.1.6-1
> ii  libasound2-plugins           1:1.1.6-dmo1
> ii  libc6                        2.27-3
> ii  libcap2                      1:2.25-1.2
> ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.12.8-3
> ii  libgcc1                      1:8.1.0-10
> ii  libice6                      2:1.0.9-2
> ii  libltdl7                     2.4.6-2.1
> ii  liborc-0.4-0                 1:0.4.28-2
> ii  libpulse0                    11.1-5
> ii  libsm6                       2:1.2.2-1+b3
> ii  libsndfile1                  1.0.28-4
> ii  libsoxr0                     0.1.2-3
> ii  libspeexdsp1                 1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
> ii  libstdc++6                   8.1.0-10
> ii  libsystemd0                  239-5
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