On 21 October 2015 at 14:57, Karsten Rode
Hi,
I have a problem I think is related to the startup of a systemd user session. I noticed lately that pulseaudio does not automatically start, although I can start it form the command line later with
$ pulseaudio --start
After digging around I found that pulseaudio should be started by the systemd user session, [...]
Unless this changed, pulseaudio is started automatically by libpulse when a client needs the daemon. This can be controlled by the autospawn option in /etc/pulse/client.conf or ~/.config/pulse/client.conf (see man pulse-client.conf). You could disable autospawn there (even if it seems to be broken already) and use systemd user sessions. For that you would have to enable either the pulseaudio.service or pulseaudio.socket unit in your user session (systemctl --user enable ....). Either way, normally it should just work without systemd user sessions. So if you didn't change the autospawn setting something seems to be broken. Keep in mind that libpulse also delays starting the daemon until someone tries to use it. So maybe you're just observing this. -- Maarten