[Bug 1734515] [NEW] Setting "Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available" breaks all audio

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Setting "Automatically switch all running streams when a new output
becomes available" breaks all audio. Setting from the System Settings ->
Multimedia -> Audio Volume -> Advanced. After next boot the audio is
gone. Pulseaudio refuses to start. And while the pulseaudio doesn't
start up, the setting that caused this is now grayed out and can't be
taken of. Leaving you with crippled system. This happens in Kubuntu
17.10.

The reason this happens, I believe, is that the setting puts the
pulseaudio switch on connect module somewhere. And at least with 17.10
this is already defined in the pulseaudio configuration by default.
Pulseaudio somehow doesn't like that it is defined twice.

I solved this by temporarily disabling the module from
/etc/pulseaudio/default.pa, rebooting, switching off the setting from
the System Settings and the re-enabling it from the /etc/. That is
hardly something easy to do...

** Affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: bot-comment
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Setting "Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available" breaks all audio
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734515
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