I've been bitten by this, too, and it cost me four hours to find the
root cause - my own user specific config.
It's entirely my fault, because typing 'man pulseaudio', then scroll to
the bottom, then type 'man default.pa' would have alerted me early of
this problem. Instead I searched the
Hi B Bobo and thanks for your engagement and time taken to write this
down. I have relayed your comment to the pulseaudio mailing list, and it
has already gotten two comments. If you like, you can join the
pulseaudio-discuss mailinglist and answer them there:
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Ok, thank you for explaining that. It's a very unexpected way of
operation. I'm sure it's going to catch out other people in the future.
People think of it as a configuration file, but it is rather a script. I
think that could be the gotcha.
I wonder why doesn't the pulseaudio documentation
Ok, but could you then explain where you would look, and what the text
would look like to give you that information? It would be good for me to
know where users are looking for information.
I have made a few suggestions below.
People think of it as a configuration file, but it is rather a
I removed the ppa to get the maverick version and that has the same
problem.
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pulseaudio fails to start if ~/.pulse/default.pa exists
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663019
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No, I just removed the ppa from the list of repositories and then
Reload, Mark Upgrades, Apply in succession in Synaptic, but that didn't
provide the Maverick version - it still gave the ppa version.
So, I choose Package, Force Version and manually selected the Maverick version
to install the Maverick version of pulseaudio only (and any additional
dependencies it might have).
How can I do that?
Thanks.
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pulseaudio fails to start if ~/.pulse/default.pa exists
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663019
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This is intentional - if you intend to change default.pa, you should
copy the entire default.pa from /etc/pulse, then only change what you
need. There is nothing in ~/.pulse/default.pa that includes all the
needed logic in /etc/pulse/default.pa.
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Ok, thank you for explaining that. It's a very unexpected way of
operation. I'm sure it's going to catch out other people in the future.
I wonder why doesn't the pulseaudio documentation say anything at all
about it. Could you pass this upstream to ask that a few words of
explanation be added in
