[pulseaudio-discuss] Failed to load Authorization key

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 08:15 -0500, Larry Wyble wrote:
> Whenever I go to start pulseaudio I get the following errors:
> 
> W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/Larry/.config/pulse/cookie': 
> No such file or directory
> W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key 
> '/home/Larry/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
> 
> I made sure that the directories exist, I deleted .esd_auth and started over, I made sure 
> I have pulseaudio in the passwd and group files. I don't know what else to do.

The warnings are not serious. If the cookie exists in its old location
(/home/Larry/.pulse-cookie), pulseaudio will use that. I get those same
warnings and everything is working fine. We shouldn't print those
warnings - doing that is a bug.

-- 
Tanu