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Hi!

You have probably come here because you have a problem with PulseAudio, and someone asked you to provide a PulseAudio verbose log. Here's how to do that:

• Open a terminal, then enter these commands:

echo autospawn = no|tee -a ~/.pulse/client.conf
killall pulseaudio
pulseaudio -vvvv|tee ~/pulseverbose.log

• Do what you need to reproduce the bug.

• Switch back to the terminal and press Ctrl-C to stop PulseAudio.

• Open your Launchpad bug and attach the file ~/pulseverbose.log (in your home directory) to that message.
• To return your system to a clean state again, edit ~/.pulse/client.conf with your favorite editor and remove the line "autospawn = no". If the file is now empty, you can just as well delete it. Then log out and log in again.
• Last but not least - thanks for helping out!