pulseaudio log errors

[anca-emanuel]

pulseaudio[1721]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': Invalid argument
That is after I manually created the path and the file with "" content.

Second error:
pulseaudio[1726]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/lightdm/pulse): No such file or directory


You can see this from "System Log"

[lucazade]

same here:
pulseaudio[1700]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/luca/.config/pulse/cookie': File o directory non esistente

[VinDSL]

pulseaudio[1721]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': Invalid argument
That is after I manually created the path and the file with "" content.

Second error:
pulseaudio[1726]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/lightdm/pulse): No such file or directory


You can see this from "System Log"

Nothing concerning "core-util.c", but...

Yes, I use GDM (not LightDM) and I'm seeing...

pulseaudio[2580]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
pulseaudio[2580]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/gdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory

Also...

pulseaudio[2583]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Default and alternate sample rates are the same.

pulseaudio[4649]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
pulseaudio[4649]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
pulseaudio[4649]: [alsa-sink] alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

[lucazade]

I get choppy sound when pulseaudio is running, it eats all the cpu.
Killing it I have a normal sound playback..

so pulseaudio seems a bit buggy at the moment!

[edkmho]

I have exactly the same error, also the skype notification sound cracking.
pulseaudio[2138]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/gdm/pulse): No such file or directory

Any help will be grateful.

[azurkin]

Have same problem with lightdm:

[pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
[pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory

Sometimes sound doesn't work after restart. Problems appeared after upgrade to 13.04.

I have exactly the same error, also the skype notification sound cracking.

I have that problems too. This answer http://askubuntu.com/a/201747/132931 solved skype problem.

[cordes-ben]

I seem to have fixed the "failed to load authorization file" error by copying .config/pulse/cookie out of my primary user's homedir and into /var/lib/lightdm/.config/pulse/cookie, then chown'ing the directory and the file to lightdm:lightdm, then restarting lightdm. That made the errors go away in my log, although it didn't fix the (apparently unrelated) login problem I'm having