Pacmd (and others) fails on Pi 4 Buster and NoMachine

[snacey]

Hi all, I’m new to NoMachine with Pi.

I am running in to a problem running pacmd when logged in remotely with NoMachine using a Pi 4 Buster.  When I login via a connected console, there is no issue running pacmd.

To get the standard LXDE-PI desktop to come up when logging in via NoMachine I had to add the line:

DefaultDesktopCommand “/usr/bin/startlxde-pi”

To /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg or else I got a generic LXDE desktop.   When I do this and login with NoMachine, all seems ok until I try to use any of the PulseAudio cli commands.   They all fail as follows:

pi@PI-002:~ $ pacmd list-sinks
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.

From reading online, this seems to be a problem with how X11 has been initialized when NoMachine logged in – but noone seems to offer any ideas on how to solve this issue.   I suspect this is simple but I can’t seem to “get” it.

I am running the following hardware/software versions:

Pi 4, 4GB (server), MacOS BigSur 11.1 (client)
NoMachine:   Version 7.0.211 (arm7) — Server, Version 7.0.211 (OSX) — Client
Raspian:  Buster (latest updates)

Thanks for any help!

[tsotne]

Hello,
does it give some error when try to manually start PA daemon.

please try and give output or error message if it gives any:
pulseaudio -D

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