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[Julian Lam <1078543@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

$ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
pulseaudio:
  Installed: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11
  Candidate: 1:4.0-0ubuntu11
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.0-0ubuntu11 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Skype exhibits inability to find pulseaudio server, running "pulseaudio"
showed me the following:

$ pulseaudio 
E: [pulseaudio] ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to open module module-esound-protocol-tcp.so: module-esound-protocol-tcp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-tcp".
E: [pulseaudio] module-gconf.c: pa_module_load() failed

Followed advice by Frantisek
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1078543/comments/11),
fix works.

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Title:
  [raring] Pulse audio fails to start with error 'Failed to open module
  "module-esound-protocol-unix": file not found'

Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “pulseaudio” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When I dist-upgraded to raring I lost audio. The indicator and
  settings showed no volume control.

  Some debugging later showed that pulse audio wasn't running.

  When running manually:
  bob@alchemy:~/bzr/ubuntu/vte3$ pulseaudio 
  E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to open module "module-esound-protocol-unix": file not found
  E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
  E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.

  I installed pulseaudio-esound-compat and then it worked:
  bob@alchemy:~/bzr/ubuntu/vte3$ sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-esound-compat
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    pulseaudio-esound-compat:i386
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    pulseaudio-esound-compat
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
  Need to get 36.8 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

  Luke said it worked for him without this module, but it appears having
  the i386 module installed was confusing pulse into thinking it was
  available but being unable to load it (I am using an amd64 machine).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: pulseaudio 1:2.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.2-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: e440e09ef58a53bccc45087674ba6b8e
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  Date: Wed Nov 14 15:15:35 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-04-01 (593 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: pulseaudio
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2011-07-05 (497 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A10
  dmi.board.name: 0NVXFV
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A10
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: A10
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA10:bd10/25/2010:svnDellInc.:pnVostro3500:pvrA10:rvnDellInc.:rn0NVXFV:rvrA10:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA10:
  dmi.product.name: Vostro 3500
  dmi.product.version: A10
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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