[pulseaudio-discuss] Howto debug "Connection refused" problem

[Kees Bakker]

On Monday 09 November 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Kees Bakker at 09/11/09 11:02 did gyre and gimble:
> > BTW. I've got pulseaudio 0.9.10 installed. But the pulse library packages
> > are 0.9.19!! Could this be a problem?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If yes, then I'm in trouble because
> > I can't downgrade libpulse0 and friends due to dependencies to a lot of
> > other packages, and upgrading pulseaudio to 0.9.19 is not possible either.
> 
> You should be able to enable a very inefficient way of making it work. 
> Enable tcp based access to your 0.9.10 PA daemon and then set 
> PULSE_SERVER=localhost in your ~/.bashrc or similar. The 0.9.19 libpulse 
> client will then talk to your 0.9.10 pulseaudio server via TCP which 
> stands at least a chance of working.
> 
> Lots of features wont work tho'.
> 
> I have to ask, why not just upgrade? If you are running a half-backed, 
> patched up install, then you have to expect problems....

You're right. Upgraded a few more packages. It wasn't so bad after all :-)
So now at least my clients are talking to the server again.

Still no sound tho. "Hmm, no streams around, trying to vacuum."
Ah well, more work ...

Thanks so far.
-- 
Kees Bakker