Sound is gone suddenly after game error to forced log out

[sambridges]

Downloading some big files in the backround while running a moderately light game on Wine-10.0-rc1(staging) to kill some time. Then for some reason alt tabbing makes the game automatically sets to windowed mode. The moment i applied fullscreen my screen goes black and was logged out of desktop. i had to log in three times to get to desktop. I get back to see my download wasnt interrupted but for some reason the audio is fully gone.

i checked both sound settings and pulseaudio to find out that no sound source is detected.

Game crashed > Crashed desktop also > log back in > no sound

[Aravisian]

Have you yet tried using pavucontrol to reset your sound output?

sudo apt install pavucontrol

Launch:

pavucontrol

In the output tab, set your output to your desired speakers - test sound.

[sambridges]

does it usually take a long time? been waiting for a while now

[Aravisian]

Can you close pavucontrol and in terminal, run:

pulseaudio -k

Then:
systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

Then relaunch Pavucontrol and check...

[sambridges]

i feel as if some sort of error had happened in the back due to some programs outside my control

[Aravisian]

Maybe you are using Pipewire...

systemctl --user restart pipewire.service

[sambridges]

sam-bridges@sambridges:~$ systemctl --user restart pipewire.service
Failed to restart pipewire.service: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

See user logs and 'systemctl --user status pipewire.service' for details.

sam-bridges@sambridges:~$ systemctl --user status pipewire.service

Failed to get properties: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

sam-bridges@sambridges:~$

should i try restarting my device?

Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

this seems suspicious

[Aravisian]

What is your output for

systemctl --user dbus.service

@sambridges

should i try restarting my device?

Yes, that is always worth trying...

[sambridges]

sam-bridges@sambridges:~$ systemctl --user dbus.service
Unknown command verb dbus.service.
sam-bridges@sambridges:~$

it doesn't seem to do anything. But fortunately i manage to solve it in a way unexpected.

I entered the Zorin BIOS and boot up the older OS kernel 6.5.0-41-generic, x86_64. now the sounds are back like usual.

Its so random. all errors i've encountered just appears to happen suddenly after updates and more updates.

but nonetheless, Thank you.

[Aravisian]

@sambridges

I entered the Zorin BIOS and boot up the older OS kernel 6.5.0-41-generic, x86_64. now the sounds are back like usual.

Well, glad to know it is sorted.....