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Pulseaudio module is failing on system startup

See original GitHub issue

So, after fixing #103 , I get “pacmd stat exited with status code 1”. This happens at boot and until I run an application that requires sound capabilities (e.g Spotify). Running pacmd stat on the terminal returns (translated):

No PulseAudio daemon running or not running as session daemon

Not sure if it’s a fault on my end or if using pacmd stat to fix #103 is not a good solution.

EDIT: Just to be clear, running spotify and then reloading i3 config solves the issue, but it’s suboptimal…

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:15 (11 by maintainers)

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tobi-wan-kenobicommented, Jun 5, 2017

Confirmed, same here after rebooting my system. Will investigate. Thanks for the bug report!

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codingocommented, Jun 16, 2017

I didn’t experience the original issue but performed testing with the latest branch based on what I saw reflected in the comments and believe this to be fixed.

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