Bug#855013: Possibly related issue

[Ricardo Silva]

Dear all,

I've been having a similar issue to the one describing which I've traced
to the use of 'module-suspend-on-idle'.

My Debian release and package version are quite different but as it
might be the same issue I'm adding some information to this bug before
submitting a new one.

Debian release: bullseye/sid
pulseaudio: 14.1-1
kernel module: snd_soc_skl

Symptoms: whenever audio is not being played (or pavucontrol is not open
(*)) the volume get slowly reduced (every few seconds). Once at zero it
continues to try to reduce the volume indefinitely (I see the
notifications on screen as if I had used the volume keys). If more than
one sink has non-zero volume it will cycle through each of the sinks,
setting all of them to zero and keep trying to reduce the volume.

Workaround: commenting out the line 'load-module module-suspend-on-idle'
in the 'default.pa' file stopped this behavior.


Please let me know if you think I should submit a separate bug or if you
would like me to submit more information under this one.

Kind regards,
  Ricardo