Gnome: waiting for audio system to respond

[snafu777]

I wasn't making the point about that specific exploit my friend. I was pointing out that you probably should not run some services as root...and if you do, only temporarily; not the fix the post suggest (Permanent)


Snafu
Pffbt..

[netspy]

Worked just fine for me, thanks!

[BinaryLinux]

I have been tinkering with ALSA/Pulsaudio just to find that the Pulsaudio program is not started up by default.> Makes me wonder why they haven't included it in startup by default.

[metacom]

login as root, you cannot change the sound volume or settings with the sound applet in the gnome-panel.
Solution

Go to System->Preferences -> Startup Applications

Make sure you’re in the tab ‘Startup programs’

-> Click on ‘Add’

Name: Pulseaudio daemon
Command:/usr/bin/pulseaudio
Comment: Start the sound daemon

Now logout, then login again

[Nyk0n]

Thank you...worked like a charm.

[m7mdayman]

thanks, that helped me too

[iamdom]

The following worked for me-
mkdir ~/.config/autostart
nano ~/.config/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop

(copy/paste following into pulseaudio.desktop then save)

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/pulseaudio
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=Pulseaudio
Comment=Start Pulseaudio

[theZer0]

Thank you, it worked for me as well.