Ubuntu 16:04, fresh install. Decided to try and up the security a bit by securing browsers in firejail. Didn't went as I expected. The sequence of steps looked like this:
- installed
firejail - tried to run
firecfg --fix-soundas suggested here. It didn't work, firecfg is simply abscent in the installation. Looked it up viaapt-get, no luck as well. - sound starts working erratically. Sometimes it worked only in one browser and not in other, but after I restarted browser it started working again. I didn't pay much attention until VLC refused to play audio. I checked browsers, it didn't work as well.
- I tried this fix. Reboot. No good.
- Removed firejail. Reboot. Nada.
- I read that the sound problem was only present on pulseaudio 8.0 so I tried to update it to 9. I used instructions provided here. At this point I'm not sure what happened, but the gist of it is that I did everything as it was described, but when I checked
pulseaudio --versionit showed8.0. I tried running the aforementioned sequence one more time, but the update still didn't go through. - I tried the first fix again and somehow it worked and I got sound, but my sound control is completely scrambled. The speaker icon on the dashboard is greyed out and I cannot adjust volume level via system tools. Luckily I use external speakers with a separate volume controller.
pulseaudio --versionstill shows8.
What I can do to fix this mess?
