[pulseaudio-discuss] Problems with pulseaudio-5.0 and gnome-session-3.10.x

[John Frankish]

Using pulseaudio-5.0 and gnome-session/gnome-shell-3.10.x compiled from source on tinycorelinux x86_64.

If I start gnome-session from the console prompt, pulseaudio only shows a dummy output, even though my hardware is detected as per aplay/alsamixer.

D: [pulseaudio] module.c: Checking for existence of '/usr/local/lib/pulse/modules/module-udev-detect.so': success
I: [pulseaudio] module-udev-detect.c: Found 0 cards.

On the same machine and without changing anything, if I first start another window manager (flwm) from the console prompt, pulseaudio works fine. If I then exit back to the console prompt and start gnome-session, pulseaudio also works fine. The only issue being that the speaker test in gnome-control-center does not produce any sound.

I don't understand why pulseaudio/gnome-session would not work in the first case, but does work in the second case. I suppose it's a permissions issue, but the same user is being used in both cases.

Any trouble-shooting pointers would be much appreciated.

Regards
John