Bug 67545

Summary:	Daemon prints unnecessary warnings about failing to open the cookie file
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk>
Component:	daemon	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	love
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Tanu Kaskinen 2013-07-30 15:33:59 UTC

I have ~/.pulse-cookie, and I don't have ~/.config/pulse/cookie. The daemon should use ~/.pulse-cookie without complaints, but it prints warnings about failing to load ~/.config/pulse/cookie. The daemon does fall back to ~/.pulse-cookie and uses it successfully, so the warnings don't indicate any real problem. The unnecessary warnings in the log are confusing to users.

Comment 1 Tanu Kaskinen 2015-01-27 18:05:12 UTC

Also, if no cookie exists at all when starting pulseaudio, there are even more warnings:

W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/tanu/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key '/home/tanu/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/tanu/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authentication key '/home/tanu/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory

None of the warnings are useful.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-07-30 10:32:40 UTC

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