Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) reached end-of-life on May 16, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. ** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1097608 Title: 'gnome-settings-daemon' not responding because pluse Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 1) => lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 2) => apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 3.4.2-0ubuntu15 Candidate: 3.4.2-0ubuntu15 Version table: *** 3.4.2-0ubuntu15 0 500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ quantal-proposed/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.4.2-0ubuntu14 0 500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages 3) I think gnome-settings-daemon should skip or delete the pulse tmp files. 4) The gnome settings daemon got stuck and keyboard shortcuts didn't work, volumn applet stucked too. => sudo strace -p $(pidof gnome-settings-daemon) nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0 readlink("/home/vecio/.pulse/597c3768236921d57286be880000000d-runtime", "/tmp/pulse-LJLJZtJLWpLE"..., 99) = 23 lstat("/tmp/pulse-LJLJZtJLWpLE", 0x7fff3c09c510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(077) = 02 mkdir("/tmp/pulse-euJOZCPFqcfT", 0700) = 0 umask(02) = 077 symlink("/tmp/pulse-euJOZCPFqcfT", "/home/vecio/.pulse/597c3768236921d57286be880000000d-runtime.tmp") = -1 EEXIST (File exists) rmdir("/tmp/pulse-euJOZCPFqcfT") = 0 If I delete the ~/.pulse directory, the daemon work well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1097608/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

