Good [Morning .. Evening] Gentlefolks wherever you are,
I foolishly allowed unattended-upgrades (since purged) to exist briefly on this Bionic workstation and it installed a new kernel. Yes, a whole new not-custom-patched, break-anything-that cares kernel. Of course the first thing to die was pulseaudio. The first thing to smell bad is nearly always pulseaudio. My problem is that none of my old rain dances are working to restore it. A user instance is running after being set up by pulseaudio.desktop to execute start-pulseaudio-x11 but nothing seems to reach it. I immediately started looking for a D-Bus problem but got waylaid by a tangle of new snap-related stuff that I thought I was not using.
HP Z800 with 12 cores, 12G RAM, USB 16-bit DAC (Topping TP23) Cleanly installed Bionic a few? months ago with few updates since.
So a brief question: Is there really anything new about the 18.04 pulseaudio configuration beyond some new players? Or can I just chase down the usual suspects?
Also a broader meta-question: Is there a practical way to simplify this system configuration? I do not use virtualization, localization, snaps, Activities, Input Methods, and a number of other code globs. I would prefer not to run them, update them, even see them. My life could be perfectly fulfilling with only a single init system. System startup -- don't even get me started. I design and build robotic equipment; every minute spent on computer administration is a minute not designing/machining/welding/coding/testing.
BTW: programming since 1969, wire-wrapped my first computer in 1977, Linux since 1996, MS-free since 2009.
I foolishly allowed unattended-upgrades (since purged) to exist briefly on this Bionic workstation and it installed a new kernel. Yes, a whole new not-custom-patched, break-anything-that cares kernel. Of course the first thing to die was pulseaudio. The first thing to smell bad is nearly always pulseaudio. My problem is that none of my old rain dances are working to restore it. A user instance is running after being set up by pulseaudio.desktop to execute start-pulseaudio-x11 but nothing seems to reach it. I immediately started looking for a D-Bus problem but got waylaid by a tangle of new snap-related stuff that I thought I was not using.
HP Z800 with 12 cores, 12G RAM, USB 16-bit DAC (Topping TP23) Cleanly installed Bionic a few? months ago with few updates since.
So a brief question: Is there really anything new about the 18.04 pulseaudio configuration beyond some new players? Or can I just chase down the usual suspects?
Also a broader meta-question: Is there a practical way to simplify this system configuration? I do not use virtualization, localization, snaps, Activities, Input Methods, and a number of other code globs. I would prefer not to run them, update them, even see them. My life could be perfectly fulfilling with only a single init system. System startup -- don't even get me started. I design and build robotic equipment; every minute spent on computer administration is a minute not designing/machining/welding/coding/testing.
BTW: programming since 1969, wire-wrapped my first computer in 1977, Linux since 1996, MS-free since 2009.
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