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I've had pulseaudio on my device for a little while. I think the problem started to happen after I played with some 'sessions and startup' settings. I tried to change everything back but it didn't work sadly.

This is the usual pulseaudio failed error that I'm getting:

screenshot of Volume Control

Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s

In this case this is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the Environment/X11 Root Window Properties or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured.
This situation can also arise when PulseAudio crashed and left stale details in the X11 Root Window. If this is the case, then PulseAudio should autospawn again, or if this is not configured you should run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually.

Some commands outputs I've seen people post in other posts I've tried that didn't quite work for me

pulseaudio -k:

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process

pulseaudio --start

E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

pulseaudio -vvv

https://pastebin.pl/view/b5c54ddf

the red error lines from the above output

E: [pulseaudio] module-echo-cancel.c: Can't cancel echo between a sink and its monitor
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-echo-cancel" (argument: "source_name=noechosource sink_name=noechosink"): initialization failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Module load failed.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
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    Did you try to delete all custom user settings? This can e.g. be done by renaming mv ~/.config/pulse ~/.config/pulse.old. Then restart pulseaudio, or log out and back in. – Takkat Aug 31 '20 at 13:00
  • @Takkat I tried now and it didn't work :( – idkm Aug 31 '20 at 13:15
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    Check in /etc/pulse/default.pa if there is a line containing module-echo-cancel if yes comment it out (by adding # at the beginning of the line) and restart pulseaudio. – Michal Przybylowicz Aug 31 '20 at 19:04
  • @MichalPrzybylowicz i couldn't edit default.pa in the /etc/pulse/ folder so i copied it to /.config/pulse/ as i've seen on here and i've commented this line out load-module module-echo-cancel source_name=noechosource sink_name=noechosink i got no error killing pulse audio but when i tried to start it, it didn't work. it didn't work but it just does nothing however long i wait and the sound icon disappeared from panel. – idkm Sep 01 '20 at 11:36
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    @MichalPrzybylowicz i had tried logging out and logging back in but now i tried restarting and it worked!! thank you – idkm Sep 01 '20 at 11:51

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Edit this file /etc/pulse/default.pa and comment out a line containing module-echo-cancel by adding # (hash) at the beginning of the line then restart pulseaudio.

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