Bug#883542: pulseaudio: Pulseaudio does not honor paprefs "combine output

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Gabriel Corona
<gabriel.corona at enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
>> Do you have a ~/.config/pulse/default.pa ? If so, then the system one
>> is not read.
>
> I forgot to mention I tried removing ~/.config/pulse/ already.
>
>> $ systemctl --user --runtime edit pulseaudio.service
>> # Enter the following content in the editor:
>> [Service]
>> ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no -vvvv
>> $ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio
>
> For reference I had to use:
>
> [Service]
> ExecStart=
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no -vvvv
>
> Otherwise systemd complains about multiple ExecStart entries.
>
> The pulseaudio verbose log is attached. The gconf module seems to
> launch nicely but no mention of the combine sink.

déc. 05 14:40:16 marvin pulseaudio[7693]: W: [pulseaudio]
server-lookup.c: Unable to contact D-Bus:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a
dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
déc. 05 14:40:16 marvin pulseaudio[7693]: W: [pulseaudio] main.c:
Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported:
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

This seems noteworthy. Do you have dbus-user-session installed? If
not, does it help to install it?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler