Bug#1012711: start-pulseaudio-x11: pactl load-module module-x11-publish reports: Failure: No such entity

[Julian Gilbey]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 15.0+dfsg1-4+b1
Severity: normal

Pulseaudio is not starting properly when my X session starts; trying
to run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually in a terminal gives this output:

euler:~ $ start-pulseaudio-x11 
Failure: No such entity
euler:~ $ sh -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 
+ set -e
+ [ -n  ]
+ [ x:0.0 != x ]
+ /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-publish display=:0.0 xauthority=/home/jdg/.Xauthority
Failure: No such entity

But systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service works fine.

Best wishes,

   Julian


-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.121
ii  init-system-helpers             1.63
ii  libasound2                      1.2.6.1-2+b1
ii  libasound2-plugins              1:1.2.6-dmo1
ii  libc6                           2.33-7
ii  libcap2                         1:2.44-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                     1.14.0-1
ii  libfftw3-single3                3.3.8-2
ii  libgcc-s1                       12.1.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.72.1-1
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  1.20.2-dmo2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0               1.20.2-1
ii  libice6                         2:1.0.10-1
ii  libltdl7                        2.4.7-4
ii  liborc-0.4-0                    1:0.4.32-2
ii  libpulse0                       15.0+dfsg1-4+b1
ii  libsm6                          2:1.2.3-1
ii  libsndfile1                     1.0.31-2
ii  libsoxr0                        0.1.3-4
ii  libspeexdsp1                    1.2.0-1
ii  libstdc++6                      12.1.0-2
ii  libsystemd0                     250.4-1
ii  libtdb1                         1.4.6-3
ii  libudev1                        250.4-1
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing1     0.3-1+b1
ii  libx11-6                        2:1.7.5-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                     2:1.7.5-1
ii  libxcb1                         1.14-3
ii  libxtst6                        2:1.2.3-1
ii  lsb-base                        11.2
ii  pulseaudio-utils                15.0+dfsg1-4+b1

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session        1.14.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd [logind]  250.4-1
ii  rtkit                    0.13-4

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paprefs      <none>
ii  pavucontrol  5.0-2
ii  pavumeter    0.9.3-4+b4
ii  udev         250.4-1

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