Pulse Audio refuses to start

Question

Not exactly sure what's going on. Checked a few sites. can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Last time I installed Arch all of my sound worked perfectly, this time it didn't, so I tried doing some tweaks and modifications, Just can't get it going. Downloaded everything dealing with Pulseaudio and Alsa, tried doing some modifications, still haven't gotten anywhere, so I figured I'll ask here.
Anyone who has any ideas, no matter what it is, I'll give it a shot, I'm pretty much 100% setup (Wine, Flash, Nvidia drivers, programs I need, etc), sounds the only thing holdin me back.
Thanks
- Myst
Tests:
added !snd-pcm-oss & !snd_pcsp (According to something I read online dealing with snd-hda-intel)
Added options "snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto" to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf (no "s)
Computer Specs
Asus Model G72GX Laptop
Core2Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz
6GB DDR2
320GB Western Digital Drive
Nvidia 260M
snd-hda-intel is what pops up in sound checks.
Kernel version 2.6.33
Arch x64 release 2010.05
Trying to /etc/rc.d/pulseaudio start
:: Starting D-BUS system messagebus [DONE]
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer [DONE]
:: Starting pulseaudio daemon [FAIL]
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: bluetooth-util.c: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-bluetooth-discover" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
E: main.c: Module load failed.
E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon.
Grabbing sound card info
[root@Necropolis /]# ls -l /sys/module/snd/holders
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 21 03:09 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
[root@Necropolis /]# lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_intel 22514 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 258986 1
snd_seq_dummy 1439 0
snd_seq_oss 28928 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5412 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50530 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 5233 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_codec 68863 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek
snd_hwdep 6150 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 70924 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19684 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 57209 9 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7161 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
[root@Necropolis /]# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Aug 21 02:53 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 Aug 21 02:53 controlC0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 Aug 21 02:53 hwC0D0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 Aug 21 02:56 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 Aug 21 02:53 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 Aug 21 02:53 timer

Answer 1

I'd recommend a step-by-step approach, as pulseaudio is on top of alsa. first things first. is alsa already working? are the channels unmuted?  what's the output of
# alsamixer
can your hear something with :
# aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
(taken from the archwiki)
if this works, which kind of environment do you use? shell or x11? why do you try to start pulseaudio as a daemon , it's not recommended by the pa-developer anyway (at least when working with a graphical environment). The rlght way to start is via autostart of
# start-pulseaudio-x11
give it a try.