Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.
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: Confirmed => 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/1259508 Title: padsp only works when pulseaudio server is local Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release: 12.04 the following line in padsp makes that it works only if there is a local pulseaudio process running $ grep pgrep /usr/bin/padsp if `pgrep -f /usr/bin/pulseaudio 1>/dev/null` ; then This breaks for thinclient setups with a remote pulseaudio server. So if you want to check, you may rather want to check for the presence of the PULSE_SERVER and PULSE_COOKIE environment variables. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1259508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp