Pulseaudio doesn't start, impossible to adjust sound volume

[dreadyman]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

I've just re-installed ubuntu 10.04 beta and update this fresh new install because of this bug.

The problem : I could not adjust sound volume from keyboard, the sound applet in gnome panel was absent, opening "volume control" in preferences was blocking at "waiting for sound server...". I had sound but i could not adjust it from globally. I could adjust volume separately from each application.

The error :
$ pulseaudio
E: module-stream-restore.c: Failed to parse module arguments
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-stream-restore" (argument: "restore_device=false restore_device=false"): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

The solution : i renamed my ~/.pulse to ~/.pulse_ to force pulseaudio to create a new .pulse directory.

The new output :
$ pulseaudio
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Now it works, when i press volume down/up onto my keyboard, i see the notification for volume changed (with libnotify) that was not showing before renaming the .pulse directory

So this was a configuration problem, but i did not edit any file in ~/.pulse directory.

Joined the whole ~/.pulse directory which caused the problem with pulseaudio.

I hope you will considerate this as a bug because i'have just spend much time to resolve this very annoying problem.

Other infos :

Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14
  Candidate: 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.9.22~0.9.21+stable-queue-32-g8478-0ubuntu14 0
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Anthony

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

This is very likely caused by the same issue as in bug 557421