A good amount of pulseaudio modules can't be loaded

[Hadrien Titeux]

I'm running ubuntu 18.04, and I've verified that this is true on two different installs (one fresh, one updated from 16.04).

I wanted to load three modules from pulseaudio (module-ladspa-sink, module-loopback, module-null-sink), but it kept saying "Failure on module initialization"

I listed the available modules with "pactl list modules" but none of the three were listed.

They still seem to be there in /usr/lib/pulse-12.2/modules/ .

Am I forgetting something? Why can't I load them? Why are they not listed?
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/pcmC1D0p: hadware 17117 F...m pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: hadware 17117 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: hadware 17117 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-07 (309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
Package: pulseaudio 1:12.2-5~bionic1 [origin: LP-PPA-mikhailnov-pulseeffects]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-36.39-generic 4.15.18
Tags: bionic third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-36-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: Ce paquet n'est pas officiellement pris en charge par Ubuntu. Veuillez désinstaller tout paquet tiers et réessayer.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-10-07 (35 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: JBET49WW (1.14 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20BV000BUS
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0E50510 WIN
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrJBET49WW(1.14):bd05/21/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20BV000BUS:pvrThinkPadT450:rvnLENOVO:rn20BV000BUS:rvrSDK0E50510WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T450
dmi.product.name: 20BV000BUS
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T450
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please run this command to send us more information about the system:

  apport-collect 1802584

[Hadrien Titeux (hadware)]

It's done.

I did however fix the problem so the information you'll get isn't exact. I used this thread: https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/365

 (so basically removing the pulseaudio binary and doing a reinstall)

[Hadrien Titeux (hadware)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sorry, but we can't support packages from PPAs here. You have installed:

  libpulse0 1:12.2-5~bionic1 [origin: LP-PPA-mikhailnov-pulseeffects]
  libpulsedsp 1:12.2-5~bionic1 [origin: LP-PPA-mikhailnov-pulseeffects]
  pulseaudio-utils 1:12.2-5~bionic1 [origin: LP-PPA-mikhailnov-pulseeffects]

Please try (at least temporarily) removing that PPA from the machine, reboot, and tell us if that fixes the problem. If not, then please run:

  dpkg -l > allpackages.txt

and attach the file 'allpackages.txt'.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to the bug watch.
Reporter did not respond to comment #8 which was
made over four years ago so closing.