On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 05:21:21PM +0000, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > I just returned home after a short vacation to my running, completely > up-to-date jessie system, and discovered that Pulse had stopped running, and > I dont know how to get it going again. > Various of the startup commands give an error :"E: [pulseaudio] main.c: > Failed to initialize daemon." I've searched this up and down, and tried to > remove the .config/pulse directory (there's no ~/.pulse), which had no effect. > Running pavucontrol shows a long error popup:
You could try purging it and see if you can do without it. If you need it for some reason, then reinstall it. My sound is running OK and I don't have pulseaudio installed. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
