Ubuntu 18.10 Sound Issue – No Sound, Only Dummy Device Shown

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After I updated to Ubuntu 18.10 my sound device isn't recognized anymore. Only a dummy device is shown.

I have an onboard Intel device:

lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1e20] (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:2036]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel

The command pacmd list-cards does not show any devices:

:~$ pacmd list-cards
0 card(s) available.

This message in /var/log/syslog might have to do something with the problem:

Oct 19 21:02:06 MyComputerName pulseaudio[14331]: E: [pulseaudio] 
backend-ofono.c: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with 
ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.ofono 
was not provided by any .service files

Does anybody have the same issue? How can I fix this?

Best Answer

Try 

sudo apt purge timidity-daemon

and

reboot
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