[pulseaudio-discuss] need to run `pulseaudio -k` to record from null sink

[Gareth Walker]

On Tue, 7 Sept 2021 at 00:12, Sean Greenslade <sean at seangreenslade.com>
wrote:

> Can you look at the logs to see if there are any errors listed when you
> load the modules. The logs should be in your user journal, try this:
>
> $ journalctl --user -u pulseaudio.service -e
>

Thanks for the tip. This is what appears in the user journal after reboot:

systemd[1679]: Starting Sound Service...
pulseaudio[1685]: No such source.
pulseaudio[1685]: Failed to load module "module-loopback" (argument:
"source=alsa_input.usb-0c76_USB_PnP_Audio_Device-00.mono-fallback
sink=MySink"): initialization failed.
pulseaudio[1685]: No such source.
pulseaudio[1685]: Failed to load module "module-loopback" (argument:
"source=alsa_output.pci-0000_0a_00.3.analog-stereo.monitor sink=MySink"):
initialization failed.
systemd[1679]: Started Sound Service.

And then this gets added after I run `pulseaudio -k`

pulseaudio[1685]: After module unload, module 'module-null-sink' was still
loaded!
systemd[1679]: pulseaudio.service: Succeeded.
systemd[1679]: Starting Sound Service...
systemd[1679]: Started Sound Service.
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