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

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 11:35 +0000, Joel wrote:
> 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.

That's printed when a client tries to connect but is not allowed. Is
your user in the pulse-access group?

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

Something went wrong in the startup. If you try running (as root)
"pulseaudio --system -vv", does that fail, and if it does, what is the
error message (and the preceding log messages)? The command starts
pulseaudio in the terminal with verbose logging and logs go to the
terminal too. If the startup succeeds, use ctrl-c to stop pulseaudio.

-- Tanu