this is happening with me on the daily 13.04. dist-upgrade scuppered audio killall pulseaudio;rm -rf ~/.pulse;rm ~/.pulse-cookie;pulseaudio --start
sorted it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078543 Title: [raring] Pulse audio fails to start with error 'Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": file not found' Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Raring: Fix Released Bug description: When I dist-upgraded to raring I lost audio. The indicator and settings showed no volume control. Some debugging later showed that pulse audio wasn't running. When running manually: bob@alchemy:~/bzr/ubuntu/vte3$ pulseaudio E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": file not found E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed. E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. I installed pulseaudio-esound-compat and then it worked: bob@alchemy:~/bzr/ubuntu/vte3$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-esound-compat Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: pulseaudio-esound-compat:i386 The following NEW packages will be installed: pulseaudio-esound-compat 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded. Need to get 36.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Luke said it worked for him without this module, but it appears having the i386 module installed was confusing pulse into thinking it was available but being unable to load it (I am using an amd64 machine). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:2.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: e440e09ef58a53bccc45087674ba6b8e CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Wed Nov 14 15:15:35 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-04-01 (593 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2011-07-05 (497 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A10 dmi.board.name: 0NVXFV dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A10 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A10 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd10/25/2010:svnDellInc.:pnVostro3500:pvrA10:rvnDellInc.:rn0NVXFV:rvrA10:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA10: dmi.product.name: Vostro 3500 dmi.product.version: A10 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1078543/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp