pulseaudio 0.9.14-0ubuntu17 fails during install

[Chris Vanden Berghe]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Upgrade fails:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  pulseaudio
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
118 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/412kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 125555 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pulseaudio 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu16 (using .../pulseaudio_1%3a0.9.14-0ubuntu17_i386.deb) ...
 * Stopping system PulseAudio Daemoninvoke-rc.d: initscript pulseaudio, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
 * Stopping system PulseAudio DaemonNo process in pidfile `/var/run/pulse/pid' found running; none killed.
invoke-rc.d: initscript pulseaudio, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/pulseaudio_1%3a0.9.14-0ubuntu17_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting system PulseAudio Daemon [ OK ]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/pulseaudio_1%3a0.9.14-0ubuntu17_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Please let me know what more information is required.

Regards,
Chris.