Need to manually start pulseaudio on reboot

[nmanca]

Dear list,

Since upgrading to bookworm I have to manually start pulseaudio at every login
by executing:

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

I use KDE plasma desktop.
how can I diagnose/solve the problem?

regards,
Nicola

[Jude DaShiell]

Have you run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm yet?

[nmanca]

On 25/01/2022 00:14, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Have you run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm yet?

I tried, didn't worked. Should I check some config file I forgot I modified in
the remote past maybe?

thanks,
Nicola

[Jude DaShiell]

First I'd remove pulseaudio from user space then remove pulseaudio from
root space but use --purge that time so no evidence of pulseaudio is
anywhere on your system.
In your user directory rm -fr ~/.config/pulseaudio
should take care of user space and
apt remove pulseaudio --purge should take care of root space.
Then apt install pulseaudio.
unless you journaled configuration changes you'll likely not remember what
those are and where they are so taking pulseaudio back to a known state
likely will be quicker.
I got jrnl installed using brew after brewforlinux got installed on my
system. It's available in pip, but couldn't install with pip3.
With brew I ran jrnl --help and got the help screen but pip install jrnl
threw several trace errors when jrnl --help was run.
Jrnl with install instructions got covered a few days ago on itsfoss.com.