after upgrading to gdbm-1.8.3-r4: Jan 2 16:30:39 pentium-m-test pulseaudio[22206]: module-device-restore.c: Failed to open volume database '/home/matare/.pulse/866956fe5267412a51f6fa544a19b790-device-volumes': Invalid argument Jan 2 16:30:39 pentium-m-test pulseaudio[22206]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-device-restore" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Jan 2 16:30:39 pentium-m-test pulseaudio[22206]: main.c: Module load failed. Jan 2 16:30:39 pentium-m-test pulseaudio[22206]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Jan 2 16:30:39 pentium-m-test pulseaudio[22204]: main.c: Daemon startup failed. Downgrading to gdbm-1.8.3-r3 fixes it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
You can also delete your pulseaudio gdbm files, but you're going to loose your pulseaudio volume settings (among other). Probably enforcing LARGEFILE_SOURCE is responsible for this. I wonder how many other apps silently fail in this case.
Well, and here's bug 299390. Who's next ? Is there a tool that could dump the content of old files and import them later ?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 299390 ***