Sorry, on closer look I see the touch.pa is meant to be passed as an environment variable by the upstart job. If I pass that correctly, pulseaudio instead fails to start with the following error:
Dec 14 22:26:49 ubuntu-phablet pulseaudio[19153]: [pulseaudio] droid-util.c: Failed to open device (errno -38). Dec 14 22:26:49 ubuntu-phablet pulseaudio[19153]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-droid-card" (argument: "voice_virtual_stream=true"): initialization failed. So this is certainly still broken, at least on the emulator, but the socket location is not the issue. ERRNO 38 is ENOSYS, Invalid system call number. I don't know why it's printing this; the output from strace instead shows: [pid 21541] open("/dev/eac", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) [pid 21541] prctl(PR_GET_NAME, 0x1e10ba0, 0x40000000, 0x76ccf7a8, 0x75b51a44) = 0 [pid 21541] ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, 0x7e97c27c) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) [pid 21541] write(2, "E: [pulseaudio] droid-util.c: Fa"..., 65) = 65 Changing the permissions on /dev/eac to be writable by phablet is sufficient to let pulseaudio start. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-touch-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1526077 Title: ubuntu-touch-session pulseaudio job fails to start Status in ubuntu-touch-session package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The pulseaudio upstart user session job from ubuntu-touch-session, /usr/share/upstart/sessions/pulseaudio.conf, runs a post-start script that polls for /run/user/`id -u`/pulse/dbus-socket. Versions of pulseaudio in wily or later do not appear to create this socket anymore; they only create /run/user/$id/pulse/native. It's possible this is because the /etc/pulse/touch.pa config is not being properly applied and therefore module-dbus-protocol.so is not being loaded. Regardless of the root cause, the symptom I'm seeing is that an emulator instance running wily fails to ever start the pulseaudio job. The post-start script shown in this job, where the script polls waiting for the creation of the socket, is also quite bad. upstart does have inotify support; the affected jobs can instead be started directly on creation of the relevant socket. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-session/+bug/1526077/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp