Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net> writes: > As your on debian, in that case edit /etc/default/pulseaudio to let > pulseaudio be started in system mode by the init script. Thanks. That file already contains 'PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1' as per the Debian package installation. That file is used only when starting PulseAudio's server from the /etc/init.d/ script. Note that the daemon is also failing to start when run independent of that script. -- \ Q: "I've heard that Linux causes cancer..." Torvalds: "That's | `\ a filthy lie. Besides, it was only in rats and has not been | _o__) reproduced in humans." -- Linus Torvalds | Ben Finney