I am on Debian Pulseaudio 2.0-6.1. Up to now never had any issues with sound.
I made some experiments with remote sinks and now it seems pulse it totally messed up.
I have only one sink. When I restart pulseaudio pactl shows the sink as IDLE. As soon as an application tries to output sound the state changes to SUSPENDED and stays that way. "pactl suspend-sink 0 0" does not change the state. I can only get it to IDLE by restarting pulse and the cycle starts again.
After a reboot the problem persists.
sudo sed 's/load-module module-suspend-on-idle/#load-module module-suspend-on-idle/' /etc/pulse/default.pa -i
– sezanzeb Apr 12 '22 at 17:16