> Is there actually a pulseaudio daemon running? yup.
> Where? Not sure what this is supposed to mean. > Is it managed by systemd? I dunno how starting it at login is supposed to work. client.conf: autospawn = no Ok this makes absolutely no sense at all. The problem went away when I took ethernet device configuration away from systemd by masking off all the networking stuff and sticking ifup -a & into /sbin/init. This does make system boot a _lot_ faster.
