Bugzilla Bug 233789

Disclaimer: This report may be considered a bit offensive.

I haven't tested this ebuild yet, but AFAICT it is broken.
I've been trying to get pulseaudio 0.9.11 running for the last few days,
learning differences between 0.9.10 and 0.9.11 and finally yesterday
I managed to get it to work (more or less).
First of all, system-wide won't work now, cause now it reads
/etc/pulse/system.pa.
This file was missing in the initial 0.9.11 release. When it's missing,
daemon will simply quit, as it won't know which modules should be loaded.
Next problem is that (manpage is incorrect on that, author failed to update it)
now daemon now has exit-idle-time = 20 by default and system-wide obviously
needs -1.

There's also the fact, that while alsa-lib 1.0.17 is in the tree,
pulseaudio author advices to use it with his three patches, that got into
alsa-lib git.

It doesn't work indeed.

pulseaudio[12730]: main.c: Daemon startup without any loaded modules, refusing
to work.
main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Copying /etc/pulse/default.pa to /etc/pulse/system.pa solves the problem.

Also please note the following:

1) Non-fatal error at startup (using libtool-2.2.4):
ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.

2) Pulseaudio aborts on stop. It happened with 0.5.10 too.
core.c: Assertion 'pa_idxset_isempty(c->sinks)' failed at pulsecore/core.c:166,
function core_free(). Aborting.

3) The init script should be changed to parse /etc/pulse/system.pa instead of
default.pa

4) If module-console-kit is requested to be loaded in system.pa, pulseaudio's
init script should depend on consolekit, otherwise pulseaudio won't start.

The idle time is important too.
Unless you run something that make use of the sound card,
daemon will quit in 20s after it's run.

(In reply to comment #3)
> The idle time is important too.
> Unless you run something that make use of the sound card,
> daemon will quit in 20s after it's run.
> 

Nope, on my machine pulseaudio doesn't quit even after long periods of
inactivity (with no clients connected).

Ignore my previous comment please. The 20-secs timer starts when the last
client disconnects, so if you just start pulseaudio but don't use it, it'll
stay running because the timer is never triggered.

Ok, media-sound/pulseaudio-0.9.11-r2 is now in portage as well as
media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.17-r1 which should fix everything here except for the
aborting on stop in comment #2, which I can't replicate. It would probably be a
good idea to report that one upstream.

As to the non-fatal error, it appears to be a harmless warning.