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

[Tobias Hansen]

On 6/21/19 10:54 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Control: severity -1 grave
> Control: tags -1 +patch
>
> (patch is https://salsa.debian.org/pulseaudio-team/pulseaudio/merge_requests/5)
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:37:48AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>> I just updated by system from stretch to buster and after that there was no sound in GNOME because pulseaudio was not started.
>> It can be easily worked around by setting "autospawn = yes" in ~/.config/pulse/client.conf but it's quite an annoying regression.
>>
>> Can this still be fixed for buster? Can we make it an RC bug?
> It should have been tagged a long time ago, but I believe that's a good
> idea.  The bug is severe -- makes the package effectively useless for a good
> part of users (those on any inits other than systemd), has a pending fix,
> and the fix has went through maintainer's review with no comments since 3
> weeks ago.
>
> I just did some extra tests, just in case -- upgrades work for me; and
> obviously the functionality itself.
>
>
> Meow!

But I am using systemd and saw this regression anyway. Let me test that patch.

Best,

Tobias