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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:<br>
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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.<br>
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Dell laptop (linux-7): line 74. Job for pulseaudio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.<br>
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Here is a link to the journalctl -xe report for the Dell laptop, which lists in part issues that appear to concern the network:
<a href="https://susepaste.org/42129174" title="https://susepaste.org/42129174">https://susepaste.org/42129174</a><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Joel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:48 PM<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>
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<div>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
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<div>The susepaste text file (<a href="https://susepaste.org/66650689" title="https://susepaste.org/66650689">https://susepaste.org/66650689</a>) 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.<br>
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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).
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