On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:24:30AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:29 AM Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > So now, suddenly from that update that started this thread, if I run the > > pactl command as an unprivileged user, it works fine. > > > Is it possible that you had previously started pulseaudio as root, and > could no longer communicate with it as an unprivileged user? > I ask this having been a pulseaudio victim myself sometimes. > >
Hmm, interesting idea, but the situation I was previously in pertained over a period since Stretch became Stable until shortly before my original mail in this thread (sometime in February if I recall correctly). Over, naturally, multiple reboots. For that period, I had to use sudo when issuing the pactl command (in Jessie and previously, the pactl command wasn't necessary at all). So I guess I could have had some sort of configuration which repeatedly put me in that situation on every reboot, and the update that "created the problem" actually fixed whatever *that* problem was... otherwise, no I don't think so. Thanks for the suggestion though Mark
