Pulseaudio on 16.04 Xenial fails to load due to missing libsystemd-login.so.0

[Henk Poley]

Sound playback with aplay works (directly to ALSA, I think). Sound widget on taskbar displays a grey muted icon. Sound Settings has no idea that I even have audio.

In a terminal:

henk@henk-qemu-desktop:~$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
henk@henk-qemu-desktop:~$ pulseaudio --kill
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
henk@henk-qemu-desktop:~$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to open module /usr/local/lib/pulse-5.0/modules/module-systemd-login.so: libsystemd-login.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-systemd-login".
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 16 17:28:05 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-25 (810 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Daemon not responding.
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
Symptom: audio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-16 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 05/26/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2403
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: F1A75-M
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2403:bd05/26/2014:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnF1A75-M:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Henk Poley (henkpoley)]

I had to clean out a custom built pulseaudio from december 2014. I'll look around some for cruft, but at least sound now works :)

Sorry for the inconvenience, this can now close.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, indeed your error was about /usr/local so custom installation