Comment 7 for bug 1844902

no change - found a pid in var/run/user/1000/pulse contains value 2299
thanks for help by the way

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On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 12:30 PM Daniel van Vugt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> OK, keep those files removed.
>
> The issue of 'pa_pid_file_create() failed' looks like a stale .pid
> somewhere. Either from a previous session or from root if somehow you've
> configured a separate instance for daemon mode.
>
> First please try removing your local config:
>
> rm -rf ~/.config/pulse
>
> and then reboot.
>
> If it still doesn't work then you need to look for files ending in
> 'pid', probably under /var/
>
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>
> Title:
> Pulseaudio broken after installing 'paprefs'
>
> Status in paprefs package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> after the update on 21/9/19 of pulseaudio to 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10 I get
> no sound and when killing the demon it restarts with the following
> error - [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. Reboot does
> not restore sound.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.10
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-157.185-generic 4.4.181
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-157-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.19
> Architecture: amd64
> AudioDevicesInUse:
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/snd/controlC1: david 1745 F.... pulseaudio
> /dev/snd/controlC0: david 1745 F.... pulseaudio
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Sun Sep 22 11:05:48 2019
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-03 (991 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160420.1)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: pulseaudio
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> dmi.bios.date: 12/13/2012
> dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
> dmi.bios.version: GKPPT10H.86A.0036.2012.1213.1503
> dmi.board.name: DCP847SKE
> dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
> dmi.board.version: G80890-102
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrGKPPT10H.86A.0036.2012.1213.1503:bd12/13/2012:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDCP847SKE:rvrG80890-102:cvn:ct3:cvr:
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