Bug#947908: pulseaudio: sound doesn't play on first launch of pulseaudio at login; restarting it always results in working sound but will reoccur on next boot

[Joshua Hudson]

> Does `journalctl --user-unit pulseaudio.service` have anything to say?

Says "daemon already running" quite a few times.

> You can set the debug flags on daemon.conf to force it to verbose mode.

Spectacular:

E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

Must clear the log file every time.

$ grep -v '^$' /etc/pulse/daemon.conf | grep -v '^;' | grep -v '^#'
$ cat ~/.pulse/daemon.conf

exit-idle-time=-1
log-target=file:/home/joshua/.pulse/daemon.log
log-level=info
kill=yes

and aplay reports:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1108:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
aplay: main:828: audio open error: No such file or directory

but writing directly to /dev/audio1 makes some noise