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[Samueru-sama]

Some apps need pulseaudio to be running in order to launch during deployment

I added this but it doesn't work:

Anylinux-AppImages/useful-tools/quick-sharun.sh

Lines 1773 to 1778 in 5f8ef14

	# Some apps will fail to run in strace mode if there is no sound server
	# FIXME: This does not work, pulseaudio still fails to start!
	if _is_cmd pulseaudio && ! pgrep pulseaudio; then
	pulseaudio --daemonize --system --verbose --disable-shm \
	--no-cpu-limit --disallow-exit --disallow-module-loading --exit-idle-time=60 &
	fi

It fails with this error:

2026-02-13T19:26:12.9810788Z N: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time.
2026-02-13T19:26:12.9835060Z E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

[fiftydinar]

groupadd -r pulse 2>/dev/null
useradd -r -g pulse -G audio -d /var/run/pulse -s /usr/bin/nologin pulse 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p /var/run/pulse
chown pulse:pulse /var/run/pulse
pulseaudio --system --daemonize --disable-shm --exit-idle-time=-1 2>/dev/null

[Samueru-sama]

groupadd -r pulse 2>/dev/null
useradd -r -g pulse -G audio -d /var/run/pulse -s /usr/bin/nologin pulse 2>/dev/null
mkdir -p /var/run/pulse
chown pulse:pulse /var/run/pulse
pulseaudio --system --daemonize --disable-shm --exit-idle-time=-1 2>/dev/null

I tested it yesterday, it actually did not work:

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/OpenClaw-AppImage/actions/runs/22025771681/job/63642053984

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/OpenClaw-AppImage/blob/bb02ed4a258aa98f4ebf97a401b11242a5993f82/make-appimage.sh#L23-L34

While pulseaudio does start, the app still complains it can't connect anyway.

[Samueru-sama]

I'm doing another run with --exit-idle-time=-1 instead of --exit-idle-time=60 just in case

[Samueru-sama]

still fails