Autostart --> pulseaudio --start (antiX) [Solved]

[rasat]

Some time ago during one of the upgrades (bullseye, Gnome), pulseaudio stopped automatically to start. Didn't mind starting manually "pulseaudio --start" waiting for later upgrade fix. After awhile became annoying. Made one executive file. But in /home there is nowhere which starts the below executive file, including ~/.config/autostart/ . The file itself works fine with manual click. Or does pulseaudo have a config file somewhere?

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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start

[Head_on_a_Stick]

in /home there is nowhere which starts the below executive file, including ~/.config/autostart/

~/.config/autostart/ only accepts .desktop files, you could try copying the pulseaudio.desktop file to that directory:

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cp /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

But the /etc/xdg/autostart/ files should be run automatically anyway so that might not work.

To run commands every time the X session starts add them to ~/.xsessionrc (without the bash shebang), see https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession for an overview of the various other methods.

bullseye

It looks like the bullseye PA package has gained a sysvinit script at /etc/init.d/pulseaudio-enable-autospawn — is that enabled?

Use this to check:

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sudo sysv-rc-conf

Out of interest does it also fail to start if you boot with systemd as PID1? The PA package supplies a systemd user service & socket to ensure autostart, perhaps that is a factor here.

[dolphin_oracle]

I don't usually supply support for those updating to bullseye...

but can you supply

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ls -l /etc/pulse/client.conf.d

and

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cat /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/*

[rasat]

I am very sorry, I forgot to mention this is in antiX. In MX (bullseye, Gnome) works fine in same /home with antiX.

I tried what you suggested... "pulseaudio-enable-autospawn" is enabled. Also .desktop in .config/autostart/ with "Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start" does not exe.

[anticapitalista]

Maybe due to a broken policykit upgrade.

Add nosystemd to the antix.list repos to read something like this

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deb http://repo.antixlinux.com/testing testing main nonfree nosystemd 

and

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sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

[Jerry3904]

<Moved the topic.>

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Also .desktop in .config/autostart/ with "Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start" does not exe.

Did you not try copying the extant pulseaudio.desktop file over?

That has

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Exec=start-pulseaudio-x11

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X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Initialization

But anyway it probably wouldn't work because the files in /etc/xdg/autostart/ should be run automatically.

Is this really for the GNOME desktop? Under antiX that would rely on elogind, which might not provide all of the necessary API features (some of them are stubbed out).

And the development branches do have a habit of breaking randomly from time to time.

EDIT: which version of PA is this? The changelog notes that v13.0-5 includes a fix for the "removal of 00-disable-autospawn.conf", which sounds relevant.

anticapitalista's upgrade suggestion would fix that if you're running an older version.

[dolphin_oracle]

Actualky being antix makes my post more relevant not less.

Debian pulseaudio is not configured to be autostarted by anything but systemd.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Debian pulseaudio is not configured to be autostarted by anything but systemd.

Version 13.0-5 added a sysvinit script for autostart (as I noted above), the changelog says:

* Enable autospawn automatically on sysvinit systems.
Instead of having a default configuration, make pulseaudio default to
disabled, and then have a sysvinit service to reenable the autospawn
setting
(Closes: #923203)
* Allow installing pulseaudio with elogind.
Because we now autospawn with non-systemd, we can use the weaker guarantees
provided by elogind
(Closes: #923201)

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... =%23923203 & https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... =%23923201

So I reckon the OP just encountered this bug, which should be fixed by an upgrade.

[rasat]

Did you not try copying the extant pulseaudio.desktop file over?

I tried all what were said earlier.

At this stage when running bullseye, I am not much concern about pulseaudio because it runs fine with the manual command "/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start". But where in /home to run a simple script when login.