Upgrading from f7 to f8 via yum. I installed everything via yum to
resolve dependencies correctly. Initially I had (on x86_64 system):

pulseaudio-esound-compat-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8
pulseaudio-core-libs-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8
pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8

Then I yum installed "kde-settings-pulseaudio" which brought in:

pulseaudio-libs - 0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils - 0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio - 1.0.14-5.fc8.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11 - 0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8.x86_64

After this I rebooted the computer. I am using KDE only.
After start arts started crashing. In the /var/log/messages file
I see errors:

Nov  9 13:06:58 compsci pulseaudio[3180]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
Nov  9 13:07:00 compsci pulseaudio[3180]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager
not running.
Nov  9 13:07:00 compsci pulseaudio[3180]: module.c: Failed to load  module
"module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed

Is this a problem with KDE using its own session manager instead of X11?
Please reassign to KDE if this is so.
Thanks