Comment 12 for bug 302276

This problem disappeared after I wiped my disk and did a fresh OS install (for unrelated reasons). Obviously, it had something to do with bad configuration files. My previous install started as a clean install of dapper in 2006 and had been upgraded to each subsequent release through intrepid. There must have been some strange cruft somewhere in /etc, because Pulse and Flash are working perfectly now, with all the same packages installed.