[pulseaudio-discuss] Odd behaviour with remote startX session

[Anil Seth]

Hi,

I need to use startx to connect to a remote machine. The xinitrc contains
  start-pulseaudio-x11
  ssh -X user at remote.host ". .bash_profile;gnome-session"

Sound does not play on tty7 (gui)
However, if I switch to tty1, it plays!
The bash_profile sets the PULSE_SERVER variable.

I had tried running pulseaudio as a daemon for the user. It was the
same behaviour.
I assumed that x11-publish was the issue and tried starting pulseaudio
with x11 modules from within startx but it did not help.

I must be missing something obvious. The distribution is Fedora11.
Any help about where to look would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Anil