Bug#586657: all clients fail with a connection refused altough the pulseaudio daemon IS running

[folkert]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-1
Severity: normal


All pulseaudio clients give a connection error.
E.g.:
folkert at timelord:~$ /usr/bin/pactl stat
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

The daemon IS started:
folkert at timelord:~$ ps -deaf | grep pulse
pulse    13790     1  0 14:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --daemonize --high-priority --log-target=syslog --disallow-module-loading=0

It is also listening on sockets:
netimelord:/home/folkert# netstat -nap | grep pulse
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     37561    13790/pulseaudio    /tmp/.esd-109/socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     37564    13790/pulseaudio    /var/run/pulse/native
unix  3      [ ]         STREAM     CONNECTED     37566    13790/pulseaudio    
unix  2      [ ]         DGRAM                    37551    13790/pulseaudio    

No shared memory segments though:
folkert at timelord:~$ ipcs

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status      

------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key        semid      owner      perms      nsems     

------ Message Queues --------
key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages    


folkert at timelord:~$ grep -v ^# /etc/default/pulseaudio
PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1

DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.4.1-4    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.21a-1  shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                   0.3-1      Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                       2.11-2     support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-9    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                      2.2.6b-2   A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-1   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.21-2   Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      150-2      libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-16   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.0.3-1  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          157-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.22-1  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.23-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.21-1   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.21-1   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
pn  pavumeter                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.21-1   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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