Comment 2 for bug 998331

I don't know if this can add something:

lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ ls
797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-card-database.tdb 797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-device-volumes.tdb
797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-default-sink 797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-runtime
797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-default-source 797bc4231fe86537fd67e2f600000007-stream-volumes.tdb
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ rm -rf *
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ ls -la
total 8
drwx------ 2 lucas lucas 4096 May 12 16:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 48 lucas lucas 4096 May 12 14:09 ..
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ pulseaudio
E: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Card '3' doesn't exist: No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="3" name="usb-M-Audio_FastTrack_Pro-00-Pro" card_name="alsa_card.usb-M-Audio_FastTrack_Pro-00-Pro" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: D-Bus name org.PulseAudio1 already taken.
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$

were does it search for the file?

ls /proc/asound/card3/
id midi0 pcm0c pcm0p pcm1c pcm1p stream0 stream1 usbbus usbid usbmixer
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ cat /proc/asound/card3/id
Pro
lucas@smrg-lm:~/.pulse$ cat /proc/asound/card3/usbid
0763:2012

best