Daemon startup failed.

Opensuse 13.1 creative labs usb sound blaster x-fi surround 5.1
In trying to get my back speakers and subwoofer working I installed Pulse audio. After trying various suggestions I gave up unable to get the spidf or the RCA analog connections to work. I uninstalled Pulse Audio. That was a month ago. Today I was trying to get skype to work but I found out that it only works with Pulse Audio. When I reinstalled pulse audio I know get Daemon startup failed.
I tried:

pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process


Then I tried:
pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

The pulse audio control volume control now gives me an error:

Connection to Pulse Audio failed. Automatic retry in 5s
In this case this is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the Environment/X11 Root Window Properties or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured
This situation can also arise when PulseAudio crashed and left stale details in the X11 Root Window
If this is the case, then PulseAudio should autospawn again, or if this is not configured you should run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually

When I run

start-pulseaudio-x11
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Can anyone explain to me what is happening and how to fix it?