Comment 20 for bug 1799007

@vanvugt: there's nothing in /var/crash from pulseaudio, and as noted above, pulse is started in non-daemon mode by Ubuntu. so it's running, but apps can't seem to talk to it. probably because of the failure to start the socket service, as noted above. without the socket, and without it being a daemon, I don't think there's any way for apps to actually reach pulse.

Killing pulse works fine, but it just respawns in the same broken state:

$ ps axf | grep pulse
20761 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | | \_ grep --color=auto pulse
15659 ? S<sl 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
$ pacmd list
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
$ killall -ABRT pulseaudio
$ ps axf | grep pulse
22402 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | | \_ grep --color=auto pulse
22248 ? S<sl 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
$ pacmd list
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.