Ubuntu – PulseAudio is not working at all

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I installed PulseAudio two weeks ago and since then I've been trying to open it and it doesn't.

Does anyone have any solution?

P.S. I have a horrible Speaker set.

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PulseAudio is included and configured for you already in Ubuntu by default, you don't have to run it manually. So, if you have some problems with sound, I don't think that is because of PulseAudio. It could be a bug or maybe a hardware problem.

You can check it if is working ok with pulseaudio --check in a terminal - produces no output on the console except for errors to stderr.

See man pulseaudio for more informations.

Also, for more help, you can follow this question: Sound problems after upgading to 13.04 and this Sound Troubleshooting Procedure.

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That looks an awful lot like a #!/bin/bash style opening (I don't know the proper name for it, comments on a postcard) so I stuck a hash at the beginning like so:

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The same here. But in my case pulseaudio discovers a remote source, but not sink. However, there are typical error messages in log for both of them.

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I think I've already found solution:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-bugs/2009-October/003348.html

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