I just hit a related issue when moving my home directory from one system to another. After moving the data from my home directory (including ~/.pulse), the sound applet stopped responding. On startup, it would say "Waiting for sound system to respond". After deleting ~/.pulse and rebooting, the problem went away. PulseAudio should be more forgiving in this case, since it's common to copy user preferences from one account to another.
If this is a separate bug, let me know and I'll file it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-media in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400973 Title: Waiting for sound system to respond -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
