Pulseaudio server is not starting automatically at login

[Mick Kielhauser]

I have tried to delete the ~/.pulse directory but the symptom is always the same. No sound at login, if I try to move the volume slider nothing happens and ps -ef | grep pulseaudio shows nothing. I have to run pulseaudio --start -D several times until it finally "takes" and sound is then available until I log out and in again. Example:
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
mick@DragonsLair:~$ pulseaudio -D --start
mick@DragonsLair:~$

Same happens if I kill the daemon and try to load it again. This is the same if the ~/.pulse directory was first deleted. It was working fine under the previous version. /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd is set to "True".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:1.0-0ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: mick 3729 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: mick 3729 F...m pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0x64080000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41981,103c30b0,00100200 HDA:14f12bfa,103c30b0,00090000'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 10
Date: Mon Nov 21 21:44:32 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-24 (27 days ago)
UserAsoundrc:
 pcm.btheadset {
         type bluetooth
         device 00:13:17:2A:19:3C
         profile “auto”
 }
dmi.bios.date: 05/08/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68TT2 Ver. F.07
dmi.board.name: 30B0
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 40.15
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU6420S3R
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68TT2Ver.F.07:bd05/08/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqnx6325(RE958PA#ABJ):pvrF.07:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30B0:rvrKBCVersion40.15:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq nx6325 (RE958PA#ABJ)
dmi.product.version: F.07
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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