[arch-general] pulseaudio, systemd --user and session problems

[Dennis Anderson]

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On 10/21/2015 05:57 AM, Karsten Rode wrote:
> 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, so as a first test I did
> 
> $ systemctl --user
> 
> which gave
> 
> Failed to list units: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with
> status 1
> 
> From what I recall, there are some conditions that has to be met
> in order for user sessions to work, and the output of
> 
> $ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
> 
> contains (among other things): Remote=no Service=lightdm 
> Desktop=xfce Scope=session-c2.scope Leader=1118 Audit=0 Type=x11 
> Class=user Active=yes
> 
> Does anybody have an idea of where o look for further information ?
> As you can see above I use lightdm as the display manager.
> 

I think the wiki page should get you going.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User



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