Scroll down to the line shown in the quote and add a # in front of all the lines. So in short: sudo nano ~/.pulse/default.pa E: pulseaudio main.c: Module load failed. Mar 19 08:21:59 sktop pulseaudio3911: pulseaudio main.c. Bug 669908 - media-sound/pulseaudio USE-systemd should RDEPEND on sys-auth/consolekit - E: pulseaudio. I commented out all lines shown by adding a # at the beginning of each line and saved the file. c: Failed to load module module-udev-detect (argument: ): initialization failed. Set-default-sink ladspa_output.mbeq_1197.mbeq The offending lines were at the end of the file.
#Pulseaudio main.c: module load failed install
The file had been modified in the install and not removed with it.
Turned out the problem was in ~/.pulse/default.pa. Pulseaudio: main.c: Daemon startup failedĬlearly the equalizer had left something behind when I removed it. Pulseaudio: module-ladspa-sink.c: Failed to load LADSPA plugin: file not found Output from pulseaudio -v includes: I: pulseaudio main.c: setrlimit (RLIMITNICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted I: pulseaudio main.c: setrlimit (RLIMITRTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not.
Checking in syslog I found stuff like this: Since version :f6b810fe Ive been unable to run pulseaudio - it fails to find cras-sink and cras-source. babakGX280: sudo pulseaudio -D -system -disallow-exit -disallow-module-loading -disable-shm N: pulseaudio main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time babakGX280: sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-policy Failure: Module initialization failed babakGX280. I promptly forgot about the whole thing until I rebooted and my machine began running super slow. E: pulseaudio main.c: Daemon startup failed.
pulseaudio -start fails with: E: main.c: Daemon startup failed. When this happens, there is no pulseaudio process in the session. The machine can still play sound but it cannot be controlled by the sound menu, which displays the Mute icon. I removed the equalizer as well as ladspa-sdk. Hello, On Ubuntu 12.04 / Unity, the sound menu breaks every 2 or 3 days in at least one of my user profiles. I found this blog post with the same error and an explanation:Ī few days ago I started having issues with the equalizer that is, no sound.