PulseAudio not working and filling up /var/log

[ProN8]

Recently I rearranged my system to have the home folder in a separate partition (in addition to a dual boot with Windows 7 that I already had). Around that same time the volume buttons on my keyboard stopped working and when I try to adjust the volume by going to System>Preferences>Sound it just says "waiting for sound system to respond". I can still get sound and if the player has it's own volume adjustment I can change it there but not at the system level.

At first I was ok with it but later I started getting messages that my file system was filling up, so I looked in the Disk Usage Analyzer and found that /var/log was 8.0 GB the largest files were user.log(1.6 GB) and messages.1(1.2 GB) they were both filled with different errors from pulseaudio

messages.1 had
"lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock."
printed over and over again

and user.log had these three lines
"core-util.c: Home directory /home/nathan not ours.
lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock"

(each line started with the date, time, my username, and pulseaudio[*number*])

[benplanet]

i'm in the same boat, it's been a full week now .. still no solution.

[SudoNikon]

Same here. Thousands of pulseaudio errors at a rate of about 30 a second. Need some help here.

Here is an example of syslog:
http://pastebin.ca/1889159
(tail of the last 50 messages)

[tommcd]

You can safely delete all those log messages in /var/log/user.log, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/messages.

PulseAudio is a huge resource hog. Many people, including me, happily live without it. Unless you really need PulseAudio for some specific reason, consider removing it and just using alsa:
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh....php?p=8284273

[SudoNikon]

You can safely delete all those log messages in /var/log/user.log, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/messages.

PulseAudio is a huge resource hog. Many people, including me, happily live without it. Unless you really need PulseAudio for some specific reason, consider removing it and just using alsa:
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/sh....php?p=8284273

Works! Thanks

[afrodeity]

you removed pulseaudio?