Bug#726924: pulseaudio: Multiple problems

[Victor Porton]

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

Dear Maintainer,

There are multiple (probably related) problems with pulseaudio:

The first problem (in syslog):

Oct 20 15:57:29 victor pulseaudio[4201]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/porton/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
Oct 20 15:57:29 victor pulseaudio[4201]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/porton/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
Oct 20 15:57:31 victor pulseaudio[4204]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/porton/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
Oct 20 15:57:31 victor pulseaudio[4204]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/home/porton/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory

The other problems:

Skype 4.2.0.11 sometimes produces no sound at all and sometimes sound+noise. (Microphone in Skype seems to work without any problems whatsoever however.)

It seems that the noise appears after system reboot (or maybe after logout/login in GDM) and is self-cured when I use Gnome Shell for an extended amount of time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.6-3+b1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.27.2-1
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.27-2+b1
ii  libc6                         2.17-93
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.14-1
ii  libfftw3-single3              3.3.3-5+b1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.8.1-10
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~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                    4.8.1-10
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
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.2-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                          204-5

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     4.0-6+b1
pn  rtkit                     <none>

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             0.9.4-1
ii  paprefs           0.9.10-1
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils  4.0-6+b1

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