Well, I was too overconfident, I make sure pulseaudio auto-spans: $ cat /etc/pulse/client.conf | grep autospawn $ ; autospawn = yes
I do: $ pulseaudio It says service unkown; ConsoleKit did not provide any .service files. Failed to load module module-console-kit. I gather that module-console-kit is a module provided by pulseaudio and is needed if I'm not running systemd. I do: $ ls /usr/lib/pulse-7.1/modules/module-console-kit and there is no module-console-kit.so file there. I look at what pulseaudio requires and recommends, and don't see it. I reinstalled pulseaudio. Recommended is pulseaudio-module-x11. I thought it would be harmless to install it, for I failed to understand its function. # aptitude install pulseaudio-module-x11 ... E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main \ pulseaudio\pulseaudio-module-x11_7.1.2_amd64.deb: Temporary failure resolving ftp.us.debian.org. This seems a long-term problem with ftp.us.debian.org, and since installation of pulseaudio-module-x11 is probably irrelevant. I did not take the time off from work to try a different repository. Haines