Ok, so I shut down the computer, went for a walk, came back 2 hours later and the sound was gone again.
I found out that if I run pacmd and then list-sinks, there is one option listed and its index appears to grow with time:
i* index: 35
name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY
state: RUNNING
suspend cause: (none)
priority: 9039
volume: front-left: 50580 / 77% / -6.75 dB, front-right: 50580 / 77% / -6.75 dB
balance 0.00
base volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB
volume steps: 65537
muted: no
current latency: 39.92 ms
max request: 6 KiB
max rewind: 6 KiB
monitor source: 36
sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
channel map: front-left,front-right
Stereo
used by: 1
linked by: 1
configured latency: 40.00 ms; range is 0.50 .. 2000.00 ms
card: 0 <alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3>
module: 22
properties:
alsa.resolution_bits = "16"
device.api = "alsa"
device.class = "sound"
alsa.class = "generic"
alsa.subclass = "generic-mix"
alsa.name = "ALC1220 Analog"
alsa.id = "ALC1220 Analog"
alsa.subdevice = "0"
alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0"
alsa.device = "0"
alsa.card = "0"
alsa.card_name = "HDA Intel PCH"
alsa.long_card_name = "HDA Intel PCH at 0xb4718000 irq 163"
alsa.driver_name = "snd_hda_intel"
device.bus_path = "pci-0000:00:1f.3"
sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0"
device.bus = "pci"
device.vendor.id = "8086"
device.vendor.name = "Intel Corporation"
device.product.id = "a348"
device.product.name = "Cannon Lake PCH cAVS"
device.form_factor = "internal"
device.string = "front:0"
device.buffering.buffer_size = "352800"
device.buffering.fragment_size = "176400"
device.access_mode = "mmap+timer"
device.profile.name = "analog-stereo"
device.profile.description = "Analog Stereo"
device.description = "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo"
alsa.mixer_name = "Realtek ALC1220"
alsa.components = "HDA:10ec1220,155896e1,00100003 HDA:8086280b,80860101,00100000"
module-udev-detect.discovered = "1"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-pci"
ports:
analog-output-speaker: Speakers (priority 10000, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-speakers"
analog-output-headphones: Headphones (priority 9000, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:
device.icon_name = "audio-headphones"
active port: <analog-output-speaker>
A little later, the index was 43. Here the fpaste in hopes that it is helpful:
=== fpaste 0.3.9.2 System Information (fpaste --sysinfo) ===
* OS Release (cat /etc/*-release | uniq):
Fedora release 30 (Thirty)
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="30 (Thirty)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=30
VERSION_CODENAME=""
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f30"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 30 (Thirty)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
LOGO=fedora-logo-icon
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30"
HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f30/system-administrators-guide/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=30
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=30
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy"
Fedora release 30 (Thirty)
* Kernel (uname -r ; cat /proc/cmdline):
5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
* Desktop(s) Running (ps -eo comm= | grep -E '(gnome-session|startkde|startactive|xfce.?-session|fluxbox|blackbox|hackedbox|ratpoison|enlightenment|icewm-session|od-session|wmaker|wmx|openbox-lxde|openbox-gnome-session|openbox-kde-session|mwm|e16|fvwm|xmonad|sugar-session|mate-session|lxqt-session|cinnamon)' ):
gnome-session-b
cinnamon-sessio
cinnamon-launch
cinnamon
cinnamon-killer
cinnamon-screen
* Desktop(s) Installed (ls -m /usr/share/xsessions/ | sed 's/\.desktop//g' ):
cinnamon2d, cinnamon, gnome, gnome-xorg,
openbox
* SELinux Status (sestatus):
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: enforcing
Mode from config file: enforcing
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 31
* SELinux Errors (without results: "selinuxenabled && journalctl --since yesterday |grep avc: | grep -Eo comm="[^ ]+" | sort |uniq -c |sort -rn"):
N/A
* CPU Model (grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo | awk -F: '{print $2}' | uniq -c |
sed -re 's/^ +//' ):
12 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
* 64-bit Support (grep -q ' lm ' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Hardware Virtualization Support (grep -Eq '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo && echo Yes || echo No):
Yes
* Load average (uptime):
21:10:07 up 45 min, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.57, 0.53
* Memory usage (free -m):
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31876 2436 27087 366 2351 28654
Swap: 16003 0 16003
* Top 5 CPU hogs (ps axuScnh | awk '$2!=5226' | sort -rnk3 | head -5):
1000 2701 9.9 1.2 3378480 421168 tty2 Sl+ 20:27 4:15 firefox
1000 4702 6.1 0.9 2829816 297760 tty2 Sl+ 20:51 1:07 Web Content
1000 1848 5.6 0.4 473976 138588 tty2 Sl+ 20:26 2:26 Xorg
1000 2247 3.9 0.6 3917800 215108 tty2 Sl+ 20:26 1:41 cinnamon
1000 3645 3.5 0.2 1388236 89504 tty2 Sl+ 20:32 1:19 vlc
* Top 5 Memory hogs (ps axuScnh | sort -rnk4 | head -5):
1000 2785 1.9 1.2 2985776 404948 tty2 Sl+ 20:27 0:49 Web Content
1000 2701 9.9 1.2 3378480 421168 tty2 Sl+ 20:27 4:15 firefox
1000 4702 6.1 0.9 2829816 297760 tty2 Sl+ 20:51 1:07 Web Content
42 1500 0.3 0.6 2952544 208820 tty1 Sl+ 20:25 0:08 gnome-shell
1000 4548 0.5 0.6 2797176 214648 tty2 Sl+ 20:48 0:06 Web Content
* Disk space usage (df -hT):
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs devtmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 16G 242M 16G 2% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 16G 1.9M 16G 1% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root ext4 69G 9.0G 56G 14% /
tmpfs tmpfs 16G 196K 16G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 976M 251M 659M 28% /boot
/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-home ext4 372G 106G 248G 30% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 200M 18M 182M 9% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 3.2G 24K 3.2G 1% /run/user/42
tmpfs tmpfs 3.2G 68K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
* Block devices (without results: "blkid" AND "/sbin/blkid"):
N/A
* PCI devices (lspci):
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 07)
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 10)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake Mobile PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #21 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1d.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #14 (rev f0)
00:1d.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #15 (rev f0)
00:1d.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #16 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device a30d (rev 10)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH cAVS (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106M [GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
01:00.2 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 USB 3.1 Host Controller (rev a1)
01:00.3 Serial bus controller [0c80]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 USB Type-C Port Policy Controller (rev a1)
07:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM981/PM981
08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 (rev 29)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
0a:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
* USB devices (lsusb):
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b685 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Chicony USB2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd HP Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 8087:0025 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 06cb:00c7 Synaptics, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
* DRM Information (journalctl -k -b | grep -o 'kernel:.*drm.*$' | cut -d ' ' -f 2- ):
Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt2)/vmlinuz-5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-root ro resume=/dev/mapper/fedora_localhost--live-swap rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/root rd.lvm.lv=fedora_localhost-live/swap rhgb quiet rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
fb0: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4)
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20190207 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
[drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
* Xorg modules (grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d \" -f 2 | xargs):
glx nvidia nouveau nv modesetting fbdev vesa fb wfb ramdac fbdevhw glxserver_nvidia glamoregl fb dri2 libinput glx modesetting fbdev vesa fbdevhw glamoregl fb glamoregl fb shadow libinput
* GL Support (glxinfo | grep -E "OpenGL version|OpenGL renderer"):
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.26
* Xorg errors (grep '^\[.*(EE)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log | cut -d ':' -f 2- ):
[ 55.049] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 63.104] (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
[ 63.250] (EE) modeset(G0): glamor initialization failed
* Kernel buffer tail (dmesg | tail):
[ 2581.233535] mce: CPU10: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233535] mce: CPU4: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233536] mce: CPU0: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233537] mce: CPU6: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233538] mce: CPU1: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233538] mce: CPU7: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233539] mce: CPU8: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233540] mce: CPU2: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233540] mce: CPU5: Package temperature/speed normal
[ 2581.233541] mce: CPU11: Package temperature/speed normal
* Last few reboots (last -x -n10 reboot runlevel):
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 20:26 still running
reboot system boot 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 22:25 still running
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 18:17 - 18:46 (00:29)
reboot system boot 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 20:16 - 18:46 (-1:29)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 18:06 - 18:16 (00:09)
reboot system boot 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 20:05 - 18:16 (-1:49)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 17:52 - 18:05 (00:12)
reboot system boot 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 19:51 - 18:05 (-1:46)
runlevel (to lvl 5) 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 16:44 - 17:50 (01:05)
reboot system boot 5.1.17-300.fc30. Mon Jul 15 18:43 - 17:50 (-00:53)
wtmp begins Sun Jul 14 00:51:05 2019
* DNF Repositories (dnf repolist):
repo id repo name status
*fedora Fedora 30 - x86_64 56,582
*fedora-modular Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 135
*rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free 616
*rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Free - Updates 225
*rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree 227
*rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 30 - Nonfree - Updates 42
*updates Fedora 30 - x86_64 - Updates 9,899
*updates-modular Fedora Modular 30 - x86_64 - Updates 141
* DNF Extras (dnf -C list extras):
Last metadata expiration check: 0:34:45 ago on Mon 15 Jul 2019 08:35:24 PM CEST.
Extra Packages
kernel.x86_64 5.1.16-300.fc30 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64 5.1.16-300.fc30 @updates
kernel-devel.x86_64 5.1.16-300.fc30 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64 5.1.16-300.fc30 @updates
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 5.1.16-300.fc30 @updates
kmod-nvidia-5.1.16-300.fc30.x86_64.x86_64 3:430.26-1.fc30 @@commandline
kmod-nvidia-5.1.17-300.fc30.x86_64.x86_64 3:430.26-1.fc30 @@commandline
libgit2.x86_64 0.27.8-2.fc30 @anaconda
python3-pygit2.x86_64 0.27.4-2.fc30 @anaconda
zoom.x86_64 2.8.252201.0616-1 @@commandline
* Last 20 packages installed (rpm -qa --nodigest --nosignature --last | head -20):
vlc-3.0.7.1-3.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 08:32:20 PM CEST
vlc-core-3.0.7.1-3.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:18 PM CEST
qt5-qtsvg-5.12.4-1.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libmpcdec-1.2.6-23.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libmodplug-0.8.9.0-8.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libmicrodns-0.0.10-3.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libmad-0.15.1b-27.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libdvbpsi-1.3.2-3.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libdc1394-2.2.2-12.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libdav1d-0.3.0-1.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libchromaprint-1.4.2-5.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libcddb-1.3.2-29.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
libcaca-0.99-0.41.beta19.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
kde-filesystem-4-61.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
game-music-emu-0.6.2-2.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
freeglut-3.0.0-10.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:17 PM CEST
protobuf-lite-3.6.1-3.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:16 PM CEST
mesa-libGLU-9.0.0-17.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:16 PM CEST
lirc-libs-0.10.0-15.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:16 PM CEST
libxml++-2.40.1-8.fc30.x86_64 Mon 15 Jul 2019 06:14:16 PM CEST
* EFI boot manager output (efibootmgr -v):
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0001,0000,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Fedora HD(1,GPT,a53cb472-c500-409e-a8f2-767292195d4a,0x800,0x64000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shim.efi)RC
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,c51d336a-7b8d-4130-87c1-b5f0f1d1e76b,0x109000,0x31800)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...d................
Boot0002* Fedora HD(1,GPT,a53cb472-c500-409e-a8f2-767292195d4a,0x800,0x64000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC