Comment 1 for bug 463535

jeroen@patricia:~ $ mplayer /media/Music/Mr_and_Mrs_Swing/misc/mrandmrsswing_in_the_shed.mp3
MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /media/Music/Mr_and_Mrs_Swing/misc/mrandmrsswing_in_the_shed.mp3.
Audio only file format detected.
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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 22050 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 8000->88200)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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[pulse] working around probably broken pause functionality,
        see http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/440
AO: [pulse] 22050Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 0.0 (00.0) of 137.0 (02:17.0) ??,?%

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio

MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio

Last message repeated because it take two TERM signals before it terminates.

mpd is also affected - it notifies that it cannot change the main pa volume and hangs immediately after the start of playback. The problem only arose after the latest karmic update.

rhythmbox has the same problem as well - pulseaudi seems to automatically pause playback, possibly because the alsa sink isn't working.