Comment 15 for bug 391976

GilgongoJones,

I feel very sorry... Killing pulseaudio explicitly do not prevent it to pup up when starting ekiga.

The only way I found is to remove the pulseaudio package. Would you be kind enough to try this?

First kill pulseaudio:
$ pulseaudio -k

Remove the pulseaudio package:
$ sudo aptitude remove pulseaudio
(it will probably remove the meta package ubuntu-desktop, please note down any other package as you might need to reinstall them)

Run the Monitor System application (under Administration->Monitor system) and make sure there is no pulseaudio process in the Process tab. If it is there, kill it.

Get the backtrace.

To reinstall the system you can use:
$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop

And finally restart pulseaudio:
$ pulseaudio -D

Best regards,
Yannick