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Pulseaudio fails to start (Manjaro)

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So I'm trying to set up an old HP tablet for discord calls but I'm running into a issue where pulseaudio fails to start and therefore no audio recording or playback works on the system.

tablet is an HP X2 something with an Intel Atom x5-Z8350, there's a Blue snowball USB mic connected.

OS is Manjaro 21.2.4 (minimal XFCE) with (I think) everything up to date (I ran pacman -Syu). 

pulseaudio --start

just returns: 

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


I attached the log from running 

pulseaudio -v


I'm not very experienced with linux but I did try disabling some suggested options in the /etc/pulse/defalut.pa file (bluetooth and auto-device switching).

I'm also tried reinstalling pulseaudio via pacman and clearing all the configs in ~/.config/pulse/

 

It might be related to an update that was installed, it worked initially but after installing discord, connecting the mic and running pacman -Syu it has stopped working.

pulseaudio.log

why no dark mode?
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