PulseAudio fails to start after nvidia
After installing linux-5.6.10, PulseAudio fails to start. Nothing can connect to the PulseAudio daemon and using any 'aplay' utilities in the terminal causes the terminal to hang indefinitely. This causes my system to have no sound, and no amount of troubleshooting according to the Arch Linux wiki changed the behavior. I also tested with the latest linux-lts, which had the same problem. Yesterday I updated to linux-5.6.11 and the issue persists along with the latest Arch Linux linux-lts.
Forum mod on the forums suggested that something in my dmesg log was showing something to do with my iGPU, he recommended disabling that in BIOS or blacklisting the module. I disabled my iGPU in BIOS and the issue has gone away completely.
System Architecture: X86_64
Kernel Version: 5.6.11-arch1-1
Distribution: Arch Linux
Motherboard: Gigabyte Gaming 3 Z97X
Display Connector: DisplayPort
echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger; dmesg - output here (ix.io pastebin)
More information can be found on the Arch Linux form post I made, along with another guy who was having pretty much the same issue:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1903579#p1903579