Thanks for the reply! I'm running Raspbian and have pulseaudio version 5.0. I tried changing it to type=simple, and that fixed the notify issue, but it's still not working. This is what I get: $ paplay test.wav connect localhost port 6020: Connection refused xcb_connection_has_error() returned true Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused > On May 22, 2017, at 10:58 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 09:03 -0700, Karl Stahl wrote: >> I'm trying to get pulseaudio running on a Raspberry Pi 3 (ARM). I'm >> having trouble getting the service to start properly. The status >> always says "activating", but never seems to finish. Any ideas? > > What's the pulseaudio version? Raspbian ships 5.0, and if you have > that, then pulseaudio doesn't notify systemd when it has started. > Systemd expects that notification, since you set type=notify in the > service file. You can try type=simple instead. > > -- > Tanu > > https://www.patreon.com/tanuk > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss