Description of problem: After upgrading to F26 my KDE Plasma desktop had no audio devices available. This turned out to be because the pulseaudio daemon would not start, writing this to the journal: Aug 09 17:42:50 wraith.home pulseaudio[6869]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module module-switch-on-port-available not loaded. Aug 09 17:42:50 wraith.home pulseaudio[6869]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Aug 09 17:42:50 wraith.home pulseaudio[6866]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. With F24 I disabled that module with a per-user config file: $ cat ~/.config/pulse/default.pa # unload-module module-switch-on-port-available This config caused the daemon to exit on startup. The daemon would not start even if the file only contains comments or empty lines. The daemon only starts if the file is empty, or doesn't exist at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-10.0-4.fc26.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. pulseaudio --kill 2. echo > ~/config/pulse/default.pa 3. pulseaudio --start Actual results: E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. Expected results: Daemon starts successfully. Additional info:
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Still present in pulseaudio-11.1-15.fc27.x86_64
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Still present in F29.
Need to get this reported upstream, you mind doing it? Else, I can ... eventually.
Done: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/597
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 30 development cycle. Changing version to '30.
In summary: this is expected behaviour, a patch will appear in version 13 that will give a more descriptive error message.
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