[SOLVED] PulseAudio - not starting up on boot

marcus-s · 2016-02-17 16:28:29

I'd like the sound card to come up on my system on boot time. So far, I have been unsuccessful in this endeavour. I know that this has been the topic of discussion before, namely here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193722 .

The solutions brought forth in that topic I have tried on my machine too... to no avail. Setting

autospawn = yes

in /etc/pulse/client.conf has not worked. A ~/.pulse directory did not exist.

There's this nearly 7-year old posting I have found, didn't have time to test yet.

For the moment I'm using the workaround to put in

pulseaudio --start

into ~/.bashrc .

Is there any other solution I have missed? Or are there other steps I can take?

Thanks your time and consideration.

Last edited by marcus-s (2016-02-18 09:30:54)

ooo · 2016-02-17 18:02:30

did you try:

systemctl enable pulseaudio

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy … sing_units

marcus-s · 2016-02-17 18:34:38

ooo wrote:

did you try:
systemctl enable pulseaudio
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy … sing_units

Tried that, it returns:

Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

smirky · 2016-02-17 20:33:50

I'm using:

$ sudo loginctl enable-linger <user>
$ systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

This is the so far the best setup for me.

ooo · 2016-02-18 02:15:02

sorry I missed pulseaudio had an systemd user service these days.
smirky's suggestion basically does the same thing.

Last edited by ooo (2016-02-18 02:15:34)

marcus-s · 2016-02-18 09:34:05

smirky wrote:

I'm using:
$ sudo loginctl enable-linger <user>
$ systemctl --user enable pulseaudio
This is the so far the best setup for me.

I tried that too just now... didn't help. Weird.

For some reason pulseaudio --start didn't work at all anymore. So I did a

sudo pacman -R pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

and then a

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa

I added pulseaudio --start into my ~/.bash_profile, and rebooted.

For some weird reason it's working now. Not the intended solution but I guess I have to live with it.

Thank you all for your time to look into the issue. Much appreciated.

Last edited by marcus-s (2016-02-18 09:34:51)

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[SOLVED] PulseAudio - not starting up on boot

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