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  1. AGL Development
  2. SPEC-612

pulseaudio does not start

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    • 0522 build of master on porter board

      Applications that make use of audio (and by default, pulseaudio as their backend) fail in various ways.

      mixer fails with:

      May 23 15:14:44 porter mixer[10167]: PaClient: connection failed:  Connection refused

      radio also fails attempting to connect to Pulseaudio

      mediaplayer fails to play streams resulting in log messages from gstreamer's pulseaudio plugin:

      Could not initialize supporting library.

      It turns out that the pulseaudio daemon never starts:

      root@porter:~# systemctl status --user pulseaudio.service
      ● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: inactive (dead)

      Further, the pulseaudio socket activation unit is not enabled:

      root@porter:~# systemctl status --user pulseaudio.socket
      ● pulseaudio.socket - Sound System
       Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: inactive (dead)
       Listen: /run/user/0/pulse/native (Stream)

      I've confirmed on my 0512 build that pulseaudio is socket activated by reviewing the output of systemd-analyze and also noting that the server is running so something changed since that build date.

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            scottm Scott Murray
            ohporter Matt Porter
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