Hi,

I'm having the same problem: most of the times the phone boots and pulseaudio doesn't start. No sound, no ringtone, no sound during calls. This is a very serious situation, in my opinion.
I'm surprised that this thread isn't getting any attention.

For me, this started after updating to power kernel .45 but coincidently (or not) when I tried booting meego from the memory card (which I was unable to do in case you're wondering)

Now, every time I boot the phone I check if sound is working (try to increase or decrease volume and see if the volume bar is shown). If it doesn't I have to go into x-term and use

sudo gainroot
start pulseaudio

And usually I need to run the 'start pulseaudio' command a few times before it actually starts. When it doesn't start, it says 'respawning too fast' or something like that...

I would honestly like to know if this a general problem or only a very few of us are suffering of this.
For me it's really annoying because my N900 is my business phone and I have lost a couple of calls already due to this.

Hopefuly pulseaudio keeps running and doesn't fail all of a sudden during the day.

Any help or suggestion to what's causing this is welcome.
My guess would be power kernel .45.

silbah