[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio is not working properly

[Sean Greenslade]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 01:38:48PM +0200, BaBa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed PulseAudio without specific configuration.
> In Firefox it uses Alsa instead of PulseAudio and in media players it does not work.
> 
> If I do
> killall pulseaudio
> pulseaudio --start
> Works in Firefox and media players.
> My user and pulse user are in the "audio" group.
> 
> sudo grep "pulseaudio" /var/log/syslog
> Oct  7 10:09:32 debian systemd[669]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-pulseaudio-autostart.service, startup phases are not supported.
> Oct  7 10:10:20 debian pulseaudio[671]: E: [alsa-sink-ALC898 Analog] alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> Oct  7 10:10:20 debian systemd[735]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-pulseaudio-autostart.service, startup phases are not supported.
> Oct  7 10:10:20 debian systemd[651]: pulseaudio.service: Succeeded.
> Oct  7 10:10:22 debian pulseaudio[737]: W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/tupo/.config/pulse/cookie': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> Oct  7 10:10:22 debian pulseaudio[737]: W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key '/home/tupo/.config/pulse/cookie': Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
> Oct  7 10:10:30 debian systemd[651]: pulseaudio.socket: Succeeded.

This question is probably better suited for a Debian forum, as it seems
to more be an issue of how your environment is set up. That said, I have
a suspicion that you may have enabled system daemon mode. Did you
manually add or enable any services after installing pulseaudio?

--Sean