Bug#924445: pulseaudio crashes randomly, no diagnostic on terminal, possibly associated with Wesnoth

[Joshua Hudson]

Unfortunately there will never be a coredump because it's not crashing
in any usual sense. It just stops.

joshua at nova:~ϟ gdb pulseaudio
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Reading symbols from pulseaudio...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file
'/home/joshua/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key
'/home/joshua/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
[New Thread 0x7fffeb8c1700 (LWP 3287)]
[New Thread 0x7fffeb069700 (LWP 3288)]
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file
'/home/joshua/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key
'/home/joshua/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] module-console-kit.c: GetSessionsForUnixUser() call
failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files
E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-console-kit"
(argument: ""): initialization failed.
[Thread 0x7fffeb8c1700 (LWP 3287) exited]
[Thread 0x7fffeb069700 (LWP 3288) exited]
[Inferior 1 (process 3282) exited normally]
(gdb)

Long time between the E: lines mostly referencing a module that's in
the config file but not actually installed anymore and the failure.