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/ -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel