Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

From	"Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?
Date	2021-12-03 16:50 +0100
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For the last month or so, Pulseaudio has been crashing for me. It seems to happen only when I use certain apps, such as watching video with VLC,or watching embedded videos in Firefox. It does not happen when listening to audio through an audio player, or having Zoom calls. After a crash,the Pulseaudio Volume Control will give a "connecting to Pulseaudio" error. Restarting with either "pulseaudio --start" or "pulseaudio -k" will hang for10-20 seconds, and then "work", in that "ps" will show Pulse is running, but I still can't play music (through anything), and the volume app shows thesame error. This will last a few minutes, until sound starts again.
This was on Bullseye; I recently upgraded to Bookworm (for other reasons, though I hoped it would help with this), and it's still happening, althoughnow "pulseaudio --start" will respond almost instantly. However, it still takes a few minutes for sound to come back.
Where do I look for help on this? /var/log/messages shows warnings about a deprecated module, but nothing more serious than that. I'm not sure wherethese crashes might be recorded, or what else to do. But having sound is very important to me, so I'd love to fix this!

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Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-03 16:50 +0100
  Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-12-03 17:10 +0100
  Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> - 2021-12-08 15:40 +0100
    Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-12-08 16:20 +0100

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