[pulseaudio-discuss] "Unable to create stream: Connection terminated" happening relatively frequently in ubuntu 11.10

[Arun Raghavan]

On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 21:15 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Arun Raghavan
> <arun.raghavan at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> >>  ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:746:(pulse_prepare) PulseAudio: Unable to create stream: Connection terminated
> >> or
> >>  ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection terminated
> >
> > 1. Is there anything suspicious in your PA server logs? You can get
> > verbose output by killing pulseaudio and running it manually with -vvvv
> >
> > 2. Also useful is running the test with PULSE_LOG=4 to get debug output
> > on the client side.
> 
> Here's the debug output on the client side.  (Forgot to make the
> server verbose, I'll try that next.)

I suspect the server-side isn't going to be too helpful here. Debugging
this stuff is usually a bit of a pain. Just to make sure, the PA server
and the test are running as the same user, right?

-- Arun