Subject: bug#367: pulseaudio: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 does not start pulseaudio in KDE (on beowulf) patch inside

From: "Dr. Jan Hauss" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:16:46 +0100

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 12.2-4+deb10u1
Severity: normal

-- Package-specific info:
File '/etc/default/pulseaudio' does not exist

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.118
ii  libasound2                   1.1.8-1
ii  libasound2-plugins           1:1.1.8-dmo1
ii  libc6                        2.28-10
ii  libcap2                      1:2.25-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                  1.12.16-1+devuan2
ii  libelogind0 [libsystemd0]    241.3-1
ii  libeudev1 [libudev1]         3.2.7-6
ii  libgcc1                      1:8.3.0-6
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.9-2
ii  libltdl7                     2.4.6-9
ii  liborc-0.4-0                 1:0.4.28-3.1
ii  libpulse0                    12.2-4+deb10u1
ii  libsm6                       2:1.2.3-1
ii  libsndfile1                  1.0.28-6
ii  libsoxr0                     0.1.2-3
ii  libspeexdsp1                 1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libstdc++6                   8.3.0-6
ii  libtdb1                      1.3.16-2+b1
ii  libudev1                     1:3.2.7+devuan1.1
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing1  0.3-1
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.6.7-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                  2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxcb1                      1.13.1-2
ii  libxtst6                     2:1.2.3-1
ii  lsb-base                     10.2019051400
ii  pulseaudio-utils             12.2-4+deb10u1

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn  dbus-user-session                <none>
ii  libpam-elogind [libpam-systemd]  241.3-1
ii  rtkit                            0.11-6

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  eudev [udev]  3.2.7-6
pn  paman         <none>
pn  paprefs       <none>
pn  pavucontrol   <none>
pn  pavumeter     <none>
ii  udev          1:3.2.7+devuan1.1

-- no debconf information

Adding a line 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
to 
/usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11

below

...
set -e

solves the problem that pulseaudio is not running automatically on KDE
beowulf after login in user context.