<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tanu -</span></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you. I made the changes you suggested (removed </span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pulseaudio.socket from two locations where I found the file: /etc/systemd/system/and /etc/systemd/system/sockets.targets.wants. In the file pulseaudio.service, I commented out the lines "Requires=pulseaudio.socket"; </span><span style="font-size:11pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"ConditionUser=!root"</span></font></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and "Also=pulseaudio.socket". Please note that there also two occurrences of this file: <font size="2"><span style="font-size:14pt">/etc/systemd/system/and /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.targets.wants. Perhaps the second occurrences are system-generated.</span></font><br> </span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br> </span></font></div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <font size="2"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I then had sound from the web browser! VLC was still providing sound as before (but I gather not using pulsesaudio). After logging out then logging back in (not rebooting), there was no web browser sound and a new error: Failed to load module "module-x11-publish"</span></font><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. This also occurred after rebooting and booting from a cold start.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> After the reboot, a fu</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">rther error arose: Error opening PCM device front:0: Device or resource busy. Also, the /var/run/.pulse cookie does exist. The systemctl status reports in full are at<span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><a href="https://susepaste.org/99540079" title="https://susepaste.org/99540079"><span style="font-size:14pt">https://susepaste.org/99540079</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></span>. I'm unable to determine what I did to cause these errors.</div> <br> <div> <div id="Signature"> <div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Joel</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">973 736 8306</span><br> </p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="appendonsend"></div> <hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"> <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> pulseaudio-discuss <pulseaudio-discuss-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi><br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 12, 2021 5:16 AM<br> <b>To:</b> General PulseAudio Discussion <pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Start condition failed - ConditionUser=!root not met</font> <div> </div> </div> <div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <div class="PlainText">On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 22:19 +0000, Joel wrote:<br> > Tanu -<br> > <br> > Thank you for your response. Please note - I have very little experience with pulseaudio and alsa, except as a user. When it comes to the configuration, I'm a complete novice and concluded that I made a mistake somewhere by copying these files.<br> > <br> > Yes, I copied the file from user library and it does contain the following lines (16 & 17):<br> > <br> > Requires=pulseaudio.socket<br> > ConditionUser=!root<br> > <br> > Here is a link to the complete pulseaudio.service file: <a href="https://susepaste.org/20298491"> https://susepaste.org/20298491</a><br> > <br> > I gather that the comments preceding those lines hint at the problem I created.<br> > <br> > For completeness, here is a link to the modified client.conf file: <a href="https://susepaste.org/83477827"> https://susepaste.org/83477827</a><br> > <br> > What do you suggest I do here?<br> <br> You don't need pulseaudio.socket if you're starting pulseaudio at boot,<br> so remove that file and from pulseaudio.service remove the<br> "Requires=pulseaudio.socket" and "Also=pulseaudio.socket" lines. Also<br> remove the "ConditionUser=!root" line.<br> <br> -- Tanu<br> <br> </div> </span></font></div> </body> </html>