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

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> On 6/21/19 10:54 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > (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?

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

Then my patch can't possibly work for you, as it re-enables autospawn on
!systemd only.  You may have ran into some other autospawn bug.

In other words:
* on !systemd, PA never starts (which makes the package useless)
* on systemd, PA still fails to start in some cases

I don't know enough about either PA or systemd to meaningfully help you
debug that case -- and my fix affects !systemd only.


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