Well it may be something local to your system. I just installed and ran pavucontrol with no such errors, although my install is a fresh 16.04 install from back in December.
Are there any files in /dev/shm related to pulseaudio and your user? They should be owned by your user, even though your user ID or name is not in the file names. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1572493 Title: pulseaudio 8.0 server frequently hangs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1572493/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
