<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Connection failure: Protocol error" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92141#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Connection failure: Protocol error" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92141">bug 92141</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi" title="Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>"> Tanu Kaskinen</a> <pre>Does pactl work right after booting like pavucontrol does? If it does, then it sounds like there's one PulseAudio instance started at login time (maybe by start-pulseaudio-x11), but it exits after being idle for some time, and then later a different PulseAudio version is started via autospawning. This sounds unlikely, but I don't think it's entirely impossible. What distro are you using? Have you ever installed PulseAudio from source? What does pactl print if you run it with this command: PULSE_LOG=99 pactl stat With luck the extra logging will show more details about what causes the protocol error, but probably not. (The logging of protocol errors really should be improved...) Feel free to ping me in IRC if you want.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>