hmm ... disabling ucm ain't likely the proper way around, because after checking what ucm is, it's indeed solving the headache by cutting head off: https://gavv.github.io/blog/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/ your fix does it also ... so it's workaround and not solving the problem .. please review that .. from this perspective, I'd NOT consider the fix from queue as acceptable .. can you please confirm this ? does queued fix just disable ucm ? regards, dan