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Sun May 3 18:19:49 PDT 2020

note in your output of ps aux  that the owner
of  pulseaudio --daemon=no  is  alex  and not
gdm.

here's my /etc/pulse/client.conf

root at Ultralap-6440:~# cat /etc/pulse/client.conf
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or 
# for
## commenting.

; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, 
usually 64 MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no

heres my /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

root at Ultralap-6440:~# cat /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## Configuration file for the PulseAudio daemon. See 
pulse-daemon.conf(5) for
## more information. Default values are commented out.  Use either ; or 
# for
## commenting.

; daemonize = no
; fail = yes
; allow-module-loading = yes
; allow-exit = yes
; use-pid-file = yes
; system-instance = no
; local-server-type = user
; enable-shm = yes
; enable-memfd = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, 
usually 64 MiB
; lock-memory = no
; cpu-limit = no

; high-priority = yes
; nice-level = -11

; realtime-scheduling = yes
; realtime-priority = 5

; exit-idle-time = 20
; scache-idle-time = 20

; dl-search-path = (depends on architecture)

; load-default-script-file = yes
; default-script-file = /etc/pulse/default.pa

; log-target = auto
; log-level = notice
; log-meta = no
; log-time = no
; log-backtrace = 0

; resample-method = speex-float-1
; avoid-resampling = false
; enable-remixing = yes
; remixing-use-all-sink-channels = yes
; enable-lfe-remixing = no
; lfe-crossover-freq = 0

flat-volumes = no

; rlimit-fsize = -1
; rlimit-data = -1
; rlimit-stack = -1
; rlimit-core = -1
; rlimit-as = -1
; rlimit-rss = -1
; rlimit-nproc = -1
; rlimit-nofile = 256
; rlimit-memlock = -1
; rlimit-locks = -1
; rlimit-sigpending = -1
; rlimit-msgqueue = -1
; rlimit-nice = 31
; rlimit-rtprio = 9
; rlimit-rttime = 200000

; default-sample-format = s16le
; default-sample-rate = 44100
; alternate-sample-rate = 48000
; default-sample-channels = 2
; default-channel-map = front-left,front-right

; default-fragments = 4
; default-fragment-size-msec = 25

; enable-deferred-volume = yes
deferred-volume-safety-margin-usec = 1
; deferred-volume-extra-delay-usec = 0

and here's gdm in /etc/passwd
root at Ultralap-6440:~# grep gdm /etc/passwd
gdm:x:121:125:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false

I can't find a file in /etc/* that starts up pulse.
I tried
# grep pulse /etc/rc*.d/*
<nothing>
and I tried
# grep pulse /etc/init.d/*
<nothing>

On 5/3/20 5:28 PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2020-05-03 15:58, jim wrote:
>> Jim's notes re PulseAudio:
>>
>>
>> PulseAudio ("pulse") was news to me, thank you.
>> The docs on the web page seem well-written to me.
>>
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/About/
>>
>>
>> Here's how it looks on my system:
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls -l /etc/pulse
>> total 20
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 May 21  2018 client.conf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2366 May 21  2018 daemon.conf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5091 May 21  2018 default.pa
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2046 May 21  2018 system.pa
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ps aux | grep ulse
>> gdm       1175  0.0  0.0 1415668 11308 ?       Ssl  Apr29   0:00
>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
>> jim       1630  2.4  0.1 2483320 18936 ?       S<l  Apr29 142:19
>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>> root     23512  0.0  0.0  21536  1088 pts/0    S+   15:39   0:00 grep
>> --color=auto ulse
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# ls /usr/bin/*ulse*
>> /usr/bin/pulseaudio  /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
>>
>> root at Ultralap-6440:~# man pulseaudio
>
> I can't seem to get "pulseaudio --start" to work:
> alex at x1:~$ ls -lA /etc/pulse
> total 24
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1201 Aug 15  2019 client.conf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 17:50 client.conf.d
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2374 Aug 15  2019 daemon.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4933 Aug 15  2019 
> default.pa                          -13
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2078 Aug 15  2019 system.pa
> alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
> alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02 15:45 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
> alex      5825  0.0  0.0   6076   892 pts/0    S+   17:19   0:00 grep 
> ulse
> alex at x1:~$ which pulseaudio
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> alex at x1:~$ pulseaudio --start
> alex at x1:~$ ps aux | grep ulse
> alex      1492  1.0  0.6 650092 27420 ?        S<sl May02 15:45 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
> alex      5944  0.0  0.0   6076   824 pts/0    S+   17:21   0:00 grep 
> ulse
>
> I expect to soon give up this endeavor and turn to antiX or mxlinux 
> (as suggested _but not advocated_ by Rick:-)

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