Bug#726924: pulseaudio: Multiple problems

[Victor Porton]

18.04.2014, 23:55, "Felipe Sateler" <fsateler at debian.org>:
> 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?

There are no /home/porton/.config/pulse/ directory.

Home is not remote mounted.

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

I have some binary mess in ~/.pulse-cookie I don't know what it specifies.

>>  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/
>
> --
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler

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