#1012711 start-pulseaudio-x11: pactl load-module module-x11-publish reports: Failure: No such entity

Package:
pulseaudio
Source:
pulseaudio
Description:
PulseAudio sound server
Submitter:
Julian Gilbey
Date:
2022-06-12 15:33:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1012711#5
Date:
2022-06-12 15:28:13 UTC
From:
To:
Pulseaudio is not starting properly when my X session starts; trying
to run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually in a terminal gives this output:

euler:~ $ start-pulseaudio-x11
Failure: No such entity
euler:~ $ sh -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
+ set -e
+ [ -n  ]
+ [ x:0.0 != x ]
+ /usr/bin/pactl load-module module-x11-publish display=:0.0 xauthority=/home/jdg/.Xauthority
Failure: No such entity

But systemctl --user start pulseaudio.service works fine.

Best wishes,

   Julian