[pulseaudio-discuss] Start condition failed - ConditionUser=!root not met

[Joel]

Tanu -

Briefly, from the systemctl status reports, errors for the two machines where system-wide pulseaudio, failed that appear to be the most significant are as follows:

ASUS-based desktop (linux-3): line 50. Nov 01 15:53:43 linux-3.home pulseaudio[7348]: Denied access to client with invalid authentication data.

Dell laptop (linux-7): line 74. Job for pulseaudio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.

Here is a link to the journalctl -xe report for the Dell laptop, which lists in part issues that appear to concern the network: https://susepaste.org/42129174


Joel

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From: Joel
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Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Start condition failed - ConditionUser=!root not met

Tanu -

Since getting pulseaudio running system-wide on one machine (an HP desktop; linux-6), I've attempted to replicate the configuration on two other machines, a Dell laptop (linux-7) and a desktop with an ASUS motherboard (linux-3). Both attempts and subsequent retries failed.

The susepaste text file (https://susepaste.org/66650689) sets out the results of systemctl status showing a wide variety of errors, including errors reported on the machine where pulseaudio is working system-wide. The last listing, another ASUS-based desktop, was not modified and pulseaudio runs in root as (I believe) a session daemon with the command # pulseaudio --system -D, but I can't get pulseaudio running in the same fashion on either the Dell laptop (linux-7) or the other ASUS-based desktop (linux-3).  In all cases, VLC still works and pulseaudio runs if I log into a user (non-root) session.

I don't know how to proceed from here (or if I should, given that parts of the system, i.e., the various machines, work).


Joel

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