[pulseaudio-discuss] PA 10 : paplay can't connect !

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2017-01-21 at 16:18 -0500, sean darcy wrote:
> On Fedora 25, running PA 10.0.
> 
> [video at sixcore ~]$ ps aux |  grep pulse
> video     2319  0.0  0.0 433508 12212 ?        Ssl  15:51   0:00 
> /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
> video     2358  0.0  0.0 130028  4892 ?        S    15:51   0:00 
> /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> 
> [video at sixcore ~]$ pacmd stat
> Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
> Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 35, size: 1.9 MiB.
> Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
> Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
> Total sample cache size: 0 B.
> Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
> Default channel map: front-left,front-right
> Default sink name: 
> alsa_output.usb-AudioQuest_inc._AudioQuest_DragonFly-00.analog-stereo
> .....................
> 
> but
> 
> [video at sixcore ~]$ paplay /home/video/Music/Route_66.wav
> Connection failure: Connection refused
> pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

The paplay error looks like pulseaudio isn't running, but obviously it
is. So the problem appears to be that pulseaudio and paplay just don't
find each other, and that's probably because they disagree where the
communication socket should be.

What does "netstat -l -x -p | grep pulse" print? What does
"PULSE_LOG=99 pactl info" print? What does "echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
print?

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Tanu

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