Description of problem: A packaging bug: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 (from package pulseaudio) unconditionally uses /usr/bin/pactl (from package pulseaudio-utils) However, the pulseaudio package does not require pulseaudio-utils. => yum install pulseaudio will miss to install pulseaudio-utils rsp. /usr/bin/pactl. This will trigger the following error when launching X: ... /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11: line 26: /usr/bin/pactl: No such file or directory ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): - Current rawhide - pulseaudio-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386 - pulseaudio-utils-0.9.13-6.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum remove pulseaudio-utils 2. yum install pulseaudio 3. launch X Actual results: Malfunction. Expected results: Function. Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Fixed in CVS, this will be part of the next version of the PA packages which I will upload shortly to F10 and rawhide.