Subject: Re: xfce4-settings: pulseaudio does not start despite it is enabled by xfce settings

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 09:58:59 +0100

Control: reassign -1 pulseaudio
Control: merge 276 -1

On Tue, 19 May 2020 13:56:26 +0900 (JST) Ryutaroh Matsumoto <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Package: xfce4-settings
> Version: 4.12.4-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After fresh installment of Devuan Beowulf by RC netinstall ISO,
> PulseAudio is enabled by xfce setting as the attached screenshot.
> But ps ax | grep pulseaudio shows nothing,
> and Pulse Audio Volume Control (pavucontrol) cannot connect
> to the pulseaudio daemon.

I am pretty certain this is bug #276 (and friends)

You need to disable autospawn by setting

autospawn=yes in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf, or
commenting out autospawn=no.

This issue and workaround is documented in the Release Notes.

  https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt

It is also mentioned in the Buster Release Notes.

Thanks.

Mark