Bug#775714: pavucontrol: Connection to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s

[David Christensen]

Package: pavucontrol
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I just installed pavucontrol.  Using Xfce and choosing rodent ->
Multimedia -> PulseAudio Volume Control, I get a pop-up:

Volume Control

Connection to PulseAudio failed.  Automatic retry in 5s

In this case this is likely because PULSE_SERVER in the Environment/X11 Root Windows Properties
or default-server in client.conf is misconfigured.
This situation can also arrise when PulseAudio crashed and left stale details in the X11 Root Window.
If this is the case, then PulseAudio should autospawn again, or if this not configured you should
run start-pulseaudio-x11 manually.


I have not modified /etc/pulse/client.conf:

# egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/pulse/client.conf
; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =
; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog
; cookie-file =
; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB
; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no


I am unable to locate start-pulseaudio-x11:

# /etc/cron.daily/mlocate 

# locate start-pulseaudio-x11


Please advise.


TIA,

David



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pavucontrol depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.4.0-2
ii  libatkmm-1.6-1           2.22.6-1
ii  libc6                    2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                1.12.2-3
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1         1.10.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0       0.28-6
ii  libcanberra0             0.28-6
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a       2.32.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.4.2-7
ii  libgtkmm-3.0-1           3.4.2-1
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.30.0-1
ii  libpangomm-1.4-1         2.28.4-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0  2.0-6.1
ii  libpulse0                2.0-6.1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a       2.2.10-0.2
ii  libstdc++6               4.7.2-5

pavucontrol recommends no packages.

pavucontrol suggests no packages.

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