Using this new default.pa, it seems that pulseaudio fails to initialize 4/5 times, but it does work for every 1/5 or so attempts. It seems to be a random phenomenon, and I did not have any applications running that would lock the sound card for access.
I simply ran "pulseaudio -vv" from the terminal without administrator privileges, and kept retrying until pulseaudio initialized properly.
Using this new default.pa, it seems that pulseaudio fails to initialize 4/5 times, but it does work for every 1/5 or so attempts. It seems to be a random phenomenon, and I did not have any applications running that would lock the sound card for access.
I simply ran "pulseaudio -vv" from the terminal without administrator privileges, and kept retrying until pulseaudio initialized properly.