Subject: bug#466: xfce4-settings: pulseaudio does not start despite it is enabled by xfce settings

From: Ryutaroh Matsumoto <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 13:56:26 +0900 (JST)

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.

My system can still use sound without pulseaudio,
e.g. by firefox.

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto

-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf)
Release:	3
Codename:	beowulf
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xfce4-settings depends on:
ii  libc6                2.28-10
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.12.16-1+devuan2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.110-4
ii  libexo-1-0           0.12.4-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.13.1-2
ii  libgarcon-1-0        0.6.2-1
ii  libgarcon-common     0.6.2-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.32-3
ii  libnotify4           0.7.7-4
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii  libupower-glib3      0.99.10-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.7-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.15-2
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0       4.12.1-3
ii  libxfce4util7        4.12.1-3
ii  libxfconf-0-2        4.12.1-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxklavier16        5.4-4
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
ii  xfconf               4.12.1-1

Versions of packages xfce4-settings recommends:
ii  x11-utils  7.7+4

xfce4-settings suggests no packages.

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

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

> 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