Bug#732103: pulseaudio: authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file

Ryo Furue furue at hawaii.edu
Sat Dec 14 01:54:08 UTC 2013


Package: pulseaudio
Version: 4.0-6+b1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I see these messages in /var/log/syslog

  pulseaudio[435]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c:
      Failed to open cookie file
      '/home/<username>/.config/pulse/cookie':
      No such file or directory
  pulseaudio[435]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c:
      Failed to load authorization key
      '/home/<username>/.config/pulse/cookie':
      No such file or directory

I checked my ~/.config/pulse/ and didn't find a file
named "cookie".

Regards,

Ryo

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

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.6-3+b1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.27.2-3
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.27-2+b1
ii  libc6                         2.17-97
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.18-2
ii  libfftw3-single3              3.3.3-7
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.8.2-1
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.3
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.18-1
ii  libpulse0                     4.0-6+b1
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-7
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                    4.8.2-1
ii  libsystemd-login0             204-5
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.12-1
ii  libudev1                      204-5
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.6.2-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.9.1-3.1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.2-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                          204-5

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  <none>
pn  pulseaudio-module-x11     <none>
pn  rtkit                     <none>

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman             <none>
pn  paprefs           <none>
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
pn  pulseaudio-utils  <none>

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