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Under phosh on the PinePhone, pulseaudio is not restarted automatically if it ever crashes or is terminated. To try, do the following:

1. Launch phosh desktop
2. Type "killall pulseaudio" in terminal and press enter
3. Open file browser and open up any audio file

Expected result would be that audio works/recovers, but it never does and you'll just get silence.

This lack of restartable pulseaudio is especially a problem since on the PinePhone at least, pulseaudio tends to crash and once I had to terminate it because it maxed out one core with zero audio playback going on in idle. So addressing this would help a lot with the impact of when pulseaudio does actually malfunction.