Bug#726924: pulseaudio: Multiple problems

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Victor Porton <porton at narod.ru> wrote:
> 18.04.2014, 23:55, "Felipe Sateler" <fsateler at debian.org>:
>> Can you reproduce these issues with pulseaudio 5.0?

It appears you missed this question :). I'm guessing you can't anymore
because you have the pulse-cookie file.

>>
>> 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.

This is the pulseaudio authentication cookie.It is there to prevent
other local users from connecting to your user pulseaudio server.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler