Package: pulseaudio Dear Maintainer,
pulseaudio failed to start on some of my machines with 'fscrypt' encrypted home dir, but everything went fine after DE was completely initialized, either with 'systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service', or with 'pulseaudio --daemonize=no'. After examining 'journalctl --user -xe', I found a related error message from pulseaudio.service: Failed to create secure directory (/home/xxx/.config/pulse): No such file or directory and systemd gave up restarting it after 5 failures in a row, which gave me a hint that the problematic machine has a crappy ssd with really bad IO performance. Since systemd service file does not provide options like 'WaitForDirectory', I workaround it by adding something like 'RestartSec=10'. This issue might be related to https://bugs.debian.org/986688 , but the fix in that bug report does not work for me.