For the issue n.2:
Did you try to comment/delete the
file /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf ?

Hope it helps.
Antonio

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 6:02 PM <lpb+devuan@???> wrote:

> I have upgraded two laptops from ascii to beowulf, and have noted only
> two issues. Overall, things really look great.
>
> 1. apt-get upgrade is telling me it wants to hold libequinox-osgi-java
> back. That's not surprising; the candidate version in beowulf is
> 3.9.1-4, but installing that version will wipe out the rest of my
> eclipse 3.8.1-10 installation. There do not seem to be any upgrade
> candidates for, e.g., eclipse-platform beyond 3.8.1-10. It seems strange
> to only have this one java lib advanced to 3.9, and nothing else.
>
> And yet that's the case at packages.debian.org as well. So I guess I
> will just get Eclipse from eclipse.org instead, and wipe the one that
> was published/installed from the repos.
>
> 2. I am using pulseaudio on these machines because, well, it just works.
> However in beowolf I am not seeing the pulseaudio server launched with
> my Xsession. I wonder if a file got removed from Xsession.d? In the
> meantime, I can launch it by hand, and if I worry more about it, I can
> launch it in .xsession.
>
> I'm happy to report no other issues with beowulf, other than the known
> problem of /usr/bin/w reporting no login info when using the slim DM.
>
> Thanks, Luigi
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