I: main.c: Successfully changed user to 'pulse'. This is what is logged by pulseaudio when starting from command line as user root: N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode. I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 171) and group 'pulse' (GID 171).Д®: main.c: Failed to create '/var/lib/pulse': Permission denied I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11. N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time.Д: core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.Д: core-util.c: setpriority() worked. Pulseaudio executed with option -system will change its user from root to pulse : this change is failing when starting pulseaudio as systemd service (it works when starting from command line).ДЇYI this is what is written by pulseaudio in the log file when started by systemctl start pulseaudio: N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode. Main PID: 2323785 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek systemd: Started Pulseaudio sound server.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: N: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: D: core-rtclock.c: Timer slack is set to 50 us.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: D: core-util.c: setpriority() worked.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: I: core-util.c: Successfully gained nice level -11.Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: I: main.c: Found user 'pulse' (UID 171) and group 'pulse' (GID 171).Дec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek pulseaudio: E: main.c: Failed to create '/var/lib/pulse': Permission deniedДec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek systemd: rvice: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILUREДec 12 09:53:25 nuc-jan.borsbeek systemd: rvice: Failed with result system]# Process: 2323785 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio -vvvv -system -disallow-exit -disallow-module-loading (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rvice disabled vendor preset: disabled)ДЄctive: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 09:53:25 CET 9s ago system]# systemctl start system]# systemctl status pulseaudio Strange thing is that I don't have a problem when running the command directly from the command line as user root. I can't get it working on my intel-nuc running CentOs 8.

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