Comment 38 for bug 1828136

I looked around a bit and found ~/.config/pulse, a directory with permission 700. Changed it to 777. That didn't make a difference. Also found ~/.pulse with this contents:

12 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 12288 Oct 7 2013 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-card-database.tdb
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 43 Apr 19 2014 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-default-sink
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 42 Apr 19 2014 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-default-source
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 16384 Apr 19 2014 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-device-volumes.tdb
 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adrian adrian 23 Apr 19 2014 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-runtime -> /tmp/pulse-8aAagnINg7zP
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 16384 Apr 19 2014 11597e2b32f1c4cb56501b9c00000008-stream-volumes.tdb
 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adrian adrian 23 Nov 27 2011 38756220f384bf82c1d1020046a3eb64-runtime -> /tmp/pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n
 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 adrian adrian 23 Sep 21 2009 38756220f384bf82c1d1020046a3eb64:runtime -> /tmp/pulse-2L9K88eMlGn7
36 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 36864 May 9 21:01 d2db290d8cab75358b4e4df65352b09e-card-database.tdb
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 48 May 11 11:34 d2db290d8cab75358b4e4df65352b09e-default-sink
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 42 May 11 11:34 d2db290d8cab75358b4e4df65352b09e-default-source
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 12288 May 9 20:57 d2db290d8cab75358b4e4df65352b09e-device-volumes.tdb
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 32768 May 9 20:56 d2db290d8cab75358b4e4df65352b09e-stream-volumes.tdb
36 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 36864 Apr 19 2014 dde22083dcde33e18c82670353529afd-card-database.tdb
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 43 Apr 19 2014 dde22083dcde33e18c82670353529afd-default-sink
 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 42 Apr 19 2014 dde22083dcde33e18c82670353529afd-default-source
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 12288 Apr 19 2014 dde22083dcde33e18c82670353529afd-device-volumes.tdb
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 16384 Apr 19 2014 dde22083dcde33e18c82670353529afd-stream-volumes.tdb
 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 5982 Mar 10 2012 default.pa
 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 adrian adrian 5920 Mar 10 2012 default.pa~

Some kinda old stuff in there. Deleted (well, renamed) the directory. No change in behavior. Also it didn't get re-created, which seemed a bit surprising since some of the files in there were new.