Bug#726924: pulseaudio: Multiple problems

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Victor,

Can you reproduce these issues with pulseaudio 5.0?

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 08:10:21PM +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
> 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

Do you have that file? Is your home directory remote mounted?

Also, do you have a configuration file specifyin that file? The default
should be ~/.pulse-cookie

> 
> 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.

This would be a problem with skype. This may be a known problem, please
try the workaround noted at:

http://arunraghavan.net/2013/08/pulseaudio-4-0-and-skype/

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler