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Da_Coynul

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 85

[SOLVED] PulseAudio does not start at login

I am not sure what happened to my config, but pulseaudio no longer starts at login under Gnome.  Attempting to start from a terminal using

$ pulseaudio --start

fails with:

N: [pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at localhost, refusing to start/autospawn.

I followed the instructions on the PulseAudio ArchWiki page under "Daemon startup failed" without success.  Interestingly, pulseaudio will work with

$ pulseaudio -D

I pasted the output from

$ pulseaudio -vvvv

here -> http://pastebin.com/zJYvY1FS

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jon

Last edited by Da_Coynul (2014-09-13 19:38:06)

Da_Coynul

Member

From: United States of America

Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 85

Re: [SOLVED] PulseAudio does not start at login

Replying to myself:

Just recalled that I had recently set PULSE_SERVER = localhost in /etc/environment. Removed that and everything is working again.

This thread helped me figure it out.