Comment 3 for bug 317921

If i do only a start...

sudo /etc/init.d/pulseaudio start
 * Starting system PulseAudio Daemon [ OK ]

and the content of

ls -la /var/run/pulse/pid
-rw------- 1 pulse pulse 6 2009-01-22 05:23 /var/run/pulse/pid

is

sudo cat /var/run/pulse/pid
18586

ls -la /etc/init.d/pulseaudio
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2045 2009-01-09 07:14 /etc/init.d/pulseaudio

The
md5sum /etc/init.d/pulseaudio
3c182b6871ffd3ce47375ccae5225f39 /etc/init.d/pulseaudio

if is different by your i send the content of /etc/init.d/pulseaudio

Hope this helps