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No sound with Chromium snap

By Andrew Adams

Recently, my computer "upgraded" the Chromium deb-package to a snap on its own.
Not that I had wanted it, I had in fact uninstalled snapcraft.
I have read of this latest crap move by Canonical, so I was not surprised when snap reinstalled itself (unwantedly and without asking).
But so far, it seemed to be working, so I didn't mind (after having blocked snap-refreshes on metered-connections).

However, I just wanted to watch a china-uncensored youtube video
5 seconds ago - and - no sound...
The sound is working. System sounds work, vlc has sound, and with Firefox, sound works, too.
It used to work with the Chromium deb-package as well.

This seems to be a snap issue.
Is there any way I can debug this ?
Any way to view whatever log file to find out what goes wrong ?
Or any ideas towards problem resolution ?

(I'm running KDE-Plasma as root, so /usr/bin/pulseaudio runs with --system - I suspect that might be the problem)

4 Reset to default

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