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

Joel Miller jm-hotmail at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 11 19:41:47 UTC 2021


OS: openSuSE Leap 15.3; KDE plasma desktop

To enable a system instance of pulseaudio, I made the following file 
modifications suggested on the freedesktop.org 
(https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/) 
and rudd-o websites 
(https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/how-to-make-pulseaudio-run-once-at-boot-for-all-your-users):

Per freedesktop.org:
	set autospawn = no in /etc/pulse/client.conf
	added "root" and "jm" to pulse-access

Per rudd-o:
	in /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service, modified text for [service] 
and [Install] (see rudd-o)
	used systemctl to enable, start, and check the status of pulseaudio

The status request yields the following:

linux-6:/etc/systemd/system # systemctl --system status pulseaudio.service
● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service; enabled; 
vendor preset: disabled)
      Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Condition: start condition failed at Wed 2021-10-06 12:16:38 EDT; 4s ago
              └─ ConditionUser=!root was not met

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Your suggestions and advice are welcome.

Joel
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