[pulseaudio-discuss] Service fails on systemctl start. Status always "activating"

[Karl Stahl]

Hi,

I'm trying to get pulseaudio running on a Raspberry Pi 3 (ARM).  I'm having trouble getting the service to start properly.  The status always says "activating", but never seems to finish.  Any ideas?


$ systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service
Job for pulseaudio.service failed. See 'systemctl status pulseaudio.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

$ systemctl status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

$ systemctl --user status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
   Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/.config/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled)
   Active: activating (start) since Mon 2017-05-22 08:57:37 PDT; 5s ago
 Main PID: 3351 (pulseaudio)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user at 1000.service/pulseaudio.service
           └─3351 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no

# ---------------------
~/.config/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service
# ---------------------

[Unit]
Description=Sound Service
Requires=pulseaudio.socket

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
Also=pulseaudio.socket
WantedBy=default.target