>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> It may have been a response to one of my posts that you are
> remembering.  Back on September 25 I posted that I had "(Almost) no
> sound under Beowulf" and viverna posted a reply suggesting the need
> for a .asound file.  In the end, I did not need this file.  Although
> pulseaudio was installed, it was, for whatever reason, not starting
> for all users.  I added a line to start pulseaudio in each user's
> .bashrc file and that fixed the problem on their next login.

I did a similar work-around fix when first faced with the same problem
on Devuan. However, I think the proper fix, as pointed out by Ken, is
to edit

/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

and comment out the "autospawn=no" line. This is the solution that I'm
currently using on all my Devuan Beowulf systems without encountering
any issues. I wonder why Devuan isn't distributing a patched version of
pulseaudio that has this configured correctly by default?

David