Bug#923203: pulseaudio: fails to start without manual configuration

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Mon Feb 25 18:18:52 GMT 2019


On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 9:54 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:

> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 12.2-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
> I'm afraid that pulseaudio doesn't work unless the user knows about
> autospawn -- which is not pointed at in any obvious place (no, no one
> reads several tens of pages of NEWS.Debian snippets on upgrades).
>

Right, this should be at least on README.Debian.


>
> There's an easy fix, though:
> make /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf point to a file in
> /run/ that is created at some point during boot.  There's no sane way to
> switch between systemd and regular inits without rebooting, thus no other
> form of runtime detection is needed.
>

Ah, interesting idea. Could you come up with a patch for this? This would
have a nice benefit of shipping less conffiles.

I think this would be required to implement the logind alternative depends:
without systemd --user or autospawn, pa would not be started.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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