Got it running at the end! The clue was to start pulseaudio not as user, but as root. Started as user I get the following: $ pulseaudio --daemonize [WARN 11203] polkit-session.c:144:polkit_session_set_uid(): session != NULL Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace E: polkit.c: Cannot set UID on session object. N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges: N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again. N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user. which results in zero output. HTH, Stefan
