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Rasi

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Registered: 2007-08-14

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How to get pulseaudio user session on boot on headless machine

I am trying to make pulseaudio automatically start on my home server and i fail.
this is what I tried so far:

Created a pulseaudio.service file and enabled it.

/etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service
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[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio Sound System
Before=sound.target
[Service]
BusName=org.pulseaudio.Server
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start
Restart=always
User=carnager
PAMName=system-local-login
[Install]
WantedBy=session.target

enabled linger for logind with "loginctl enable linger"

the service file works fine, when I ssh into the machine and start it. however on boot nothing happens.

Last edited by Rasi (2015-06-22 21:06:39)

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Malkymder

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Registered: 2015-05-13

Posts: 258

Re: How to get pulseaudio user session on boot on headless machine

You can look at the Pulseaudio wiki section about daemon though i would not use that

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio

also look at this post

http://possiblelossofprecision.net/?p=1956