Bug#783974: pulseaudio: No sound on boot till pulseaudio is killed and restarted

[L. Guruprasad]

On Saturday 02 May 2015 09:32 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> guruprasad at kal-el:~$ cat ~/.config/pulse/client.conf
>> autospawn = no
> 
> This is the problem. Why do you have disabled autospawn?
> 
> So, a bit of background:
> 
> In pulseaudio up to version 5, the script start-pulseaudio-x11 started
> pulseaudio and loaded some modules. But in version 6, systemd support
> was added so that you could start pa as a user service. This meant
> that starting pulseaudio from outside systemd could interfere with
> starting it with inside, so start-pulseaudio-x11 was changed to no
> longer start pa, instead relying on either systemd support or
> autospawn to start the server. In debian we have not enabled systemd
> by default because of problems with dbus, so we rely on autospawn.
> 
> All this is a fairly long way of saying that you have disabled
> pulseaudio by disabling autospawn.
> 
> So please remove that client.conf file and see if it works (and undo
> the changes to /etc/pulse/*).

I removed the file and things are working fine. I have never manually
created or edited the ~/.config/pulse/client.conf folder. So not sure
when and how the file got created since I have been running Debian
unstable from a couple of months after the Wheezy release. So if the
file is expected not to be there, I guess this bug is invalid.


Thanks & Regards,
Guruprasad