[pulseaudio-discuss] pactl times out

[Jim Duda]

I think this was simply an issue with me not having the proper users attached to the pulse-access group.
This is working for me now.

Jim


"Jim Duda" <jim at duda.tzo.com> wrote in message news:fshej8$ktc$1 at ger.gmane.org...
> I've recently upgraded from 0.9.6 to 0.9.8.  I used to be able to use
> pactl -s <server> list, or pactl list, to see the status of the server.
>
> Now, with 0.9.8, pactl just sits there, and eventually reports "timeout".
>
> Example:
> linux# pactl list
> Connection failure: Timeout
>
> linux# pactl --version
> pactl 0.9.8
> Compiled with libpulse 0.9.8
> Linked with libpulse 0.9.8
>
> Which module does pactl attach to?  Is auth-anonymous=1 sufficient?
>
> The server default.pa has:
>
> load-module module-hal-detect
> load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1
> load-module module-cli-protocol-tcp
> load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1
> load-module module-http-protocol-tcp
> load-module module-zeroconf-publish
> load-module module-null-sink sink_name=sphinx_record description="Sphinx
> Recording Source"
> load-module module-null-sink sink_name=sphinx_playback
> description="Sphinx Playback Source"
> load-module module-combine sink_name=misterhouse
> resample_method="src-sinc-best-quality"
> master=alsa_output.pci_1274_5880_alsa_playback_0
> slaves=alsa_output.pci_8086_24d5_alsa_playback_0
> load-module module-volume-restore
> load-module module-rescue-streams
>
> Jim