[Solved] Pulseaudio autostart

[Member spaceman]

antiX 17 Core. I installed pulseaudio and it starts and works as expect. However, it does not auto-start and I have to issue a pulseaudio -D after every restart.

I have once again Googled myself senile. I was unsure what information would be be appropriate and pertinent: please ask I will provide. I can also install a flat build, if necessary, to test fixes.

As always, many thanks, in advance, for your help and expertise.

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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what desktop evironment or window manager are you using on your core installation?

pulseaudio should but an autostart entry in /etc/xdg/autostart. But window managers are not likely to pick those up.

in any case, the command to use should be

pulseaudio --start

or if in X

start-pulseaudio-x11

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[Member spaceman]

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Indeed pulseaudio –start does work too. However, pa does not reload at startup.

I’m using Xfce4 (4.12.2), d_o, there is a pulseaudio.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart…

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spaceman wrote:

Indeed pulseaudio –start does work too. However, pa does not reload at startup.

I’m using Xfce4 (4.12.2), d_o, there is a pulseaudio.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart…

ok, so check in ~/.config/autostart

and see if there is a desktop entry overriding the default. it would also be named pulseaudio.desktop.

It may also be beneficial to check the contents of both files (if the second one exists), as I do not know how the antiX pulseaudio is set up.

cat /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop
cat ~/.config/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop

[Member spaceman]

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In X I entered start-pulseaudio-x11 and got:

Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

The end of cat /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop is

Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
GenericName=
X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1'

cat ~/.config/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop is

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=false

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hmmm…

are you running dbus? I assume so but with you running a custom core I thought I would check.

[Member spaceman]

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Yes, it appears that I am.

ps -ef | grep dbus | grep -v grep
message+  2075     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
lightdm   2334     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 4bd2febd5bb6cdc66f935e555a385201 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
lightdm   2335     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
spaceman  2386     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch 4bd2febd5bb6cdc66f935e555a385201 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
spaceman  2387     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
spaceman  2408     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax
spaceman  2410     1  0 21:08 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

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In X I entered start-pulseaudio-x11 and got:

Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

try adding this line (or uncomment, if already present) in /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
^——- alternatively, you might may want to specify
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.0.0/24

if the above doesn’t fix, check the suggestions offered in this askubuntu page: https://askubuntu.com/questions/70560/why-am-i-getting-this-connection-to-pulseaudio-failed-error/80090

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Thanks skidoo. I have seen this post and looked at some of these solutions. On your suggestion I worked through each suggested fix in turn.

"delet[e] ~/.pulse/* and restarting the sound server

Check (multiple).

check /etc/pulse/client.conf in /etc/pulse, as suggested in the warning. Make sure everything is set to its default value by commenting out every line with a leading semicolon.
Check. I have previous uncommented two lines:

autospawn = yes
daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio

start pulseaudio in system mode, by changing the value of PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START in /etc/default/pulseaudio to 1.
there is no /etc/default/pulseaudio file…

Open etc/pulse/default.pa and try commenting out all these lines:

.ifexists module-jackdbus-detect.so
load-module module-jackdbus-detect
.endif

Check. No change.

I’ll toss it out there as it was mentioned in passing elsewhere. Do I need the recommended package pulseaudio-module-x11?

I hope not because:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pulseaudio-module-x11 : Depends: libpulse0 (= 9.0-1.1.0nosystemd1) but 11.1-4.0nosystemd1 is to be installed
                         Depends: pulseaudio (= 9.0-1.1.0nosystemd1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Thanks all off to bed with pulseaudio working perfectly but still having to run pulseaudio –start.

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pulseaudio-module-x11 is only in jessie repo. It is not needed for testing/sid.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/pulseaudio-module-x11

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[Member spaceman]

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OK, I’m using testing so I don’t need it, that’s good.

I don’t have /etc/default/pulseaudio, perhaps we have it another location, though I did a search and came up empty? Or can I create one, from a default file? I’m in a single user environment so I suppose there’s no reason I can’t run in system mode…whatever works at this point. 😀

Once again thanks all.

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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if it works, you could add a “Session and Startup” entry for “pulseaudio –start”.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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Why not change the exec line in the desktop file? It is still trying to use the x11 plug-in. Maybe change it to the pulseaudio -start command if the plug-in is not needed?

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[Member spaceman]

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Dave, many thanks, I did try as you suggested and there was no change.

dolphin_oracle you nailed it (sorta) I had check and confirmed this was the case in Session and Startup:

However I couldn’t edit the entry to check what it was…or find a config file…so I disabled it and created my own:
Ɨ
This appears to have nailed a small, but irritating problem.

Thank you guys!

Ɨ Actually just pulseaudio is adequate.

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