Okay, so just to test, I hacked "/sbin/alsa-utils stop" a little to wait for pulseaudio to quit, but I had a timeout of 15 seconds and after that time, pulseaudio was still alive. So something should tell pulseaudio to shutdown, but it doesn't.
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu Maverick) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- [Maverick] Sound is always muted on startup; unmuting makes the volume at lowest level https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs