On a fresh install, this is what I get when I run pavucontrol. I've tried removing and changing the ownership of /run/user/1000/pulse/ , I've tried logging in as a root user with slim/xfce, I've tried re-emerging systemd, pulseaudio, and pavucontrol. I also tried reverting back from pulseaudio 5 r2 to regular pulseaudio 5. The problem persists and it is not possible to open pavucontrol. I am at this time, out of ideas. # emerge --info pulseaudio --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: >=dev-libs/openssl --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use: =media-libs/mesa Portage 2.2.13 (python 3.3.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde/systemd, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.14.14-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.14-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4600M_CPU_@_2.90GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 7856512 total, 5703776 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.23.2 p1.0) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif extraengine faac fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fribidi gd gdbm gif git glamor gphoto gphoto2 gpm gtk gvfs hfs hfs+ hibernate iconv icu imagemagick intel ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lame lcms ldap libgphoto libgphoto2 libnotify libv4l libva lm_sensors mad matroska melt mesa mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib musepack ncurses network networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl openmp opus pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qt qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session sna spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion suspend svg synaptics systemd tcpd test-programs theora thread threads thunar tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb uxa v4l vaapi vl42 vorbis wavpack webp wifi win32codecs wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ABI_X86="64 32" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness clock trash" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0 was built with the following: USE="X alsa asyncns bluetooth caps dbus gdbm glib gtk ipv6 orc qt4 ssl systemd tcpd udev webrtc-aec -avahi -doc -equalizer -gnome -jack -libsamplerate -lirc (-neon) (-oss) -realtime (-system-wide) -test -xen" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32"
Please retry with pavucontrol-3.0
