pavucontrol README.md
pavucontrol needs pulseaudio to be build with glib support opt/pulseaudio does not automatically include this. You need to do the following steps to build pavucontrol if pulseaudio was not compiled against glib:
sudo ports -u
sudo prt-get depinst glib
sudo prt-get update -fr pulseaudio
sudo prt-get depinst pavucontrol