Public bug reported: I have a few hundred thousand of these entries in my /var/log/syslog:
May 5 18:05:34 hunt pulseaudio[15247]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed. May 5 18:05:34 hunt pulseaudio[15247]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. May 5 18:05:34 hunt pulseaudio[15244]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed. May 5 18:05:35 hunt pulseaudio[15251]: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Failed to scan for devices. May 5 18:05:35 hunt pulseaudio[15251]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-udev-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed. This is likely to be related to my 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS upgrade, which I did a few days ago: $ ls -lh sys* -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 35M May 5 21:00 syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 61M May 5 07:35 syslog.1 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.2M May 4 07:35 syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.1M May 3 07:35 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2.8M May 2 07:35 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3.5M May 1 07:35 syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 77K Apr 30 01:04 syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 11K Apr 29 07:57 syslog.7.gz ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/hwC0D3', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D8p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D7p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu May 5 20:58:43 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (1295 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-30 (5 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 09/13/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: G4ET62WW (2.04 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 2359CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Defined dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrG4ET62WW(2.04):bd09/13/2012:svnLENOVO:pn2359CTO:pvrThinkPadT530:rvnLENOVO:rn2359CTO:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 2359CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T530 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO ** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578907 Title: pulseaudio fills my logs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1578907/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs