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Re: Bluetooth audio problem

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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:04:05PM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
> 
> > Hello
> > 
> > Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to
> > execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to
> > bluetooth devices using the Gnome bluetooth applet:
> > 
> > $ sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
> > 

<self-snip (ouch!)>

> > Now, when I run the above command it is erroring out with:
> > 
> > xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
> > Connection failure: Connection refused
> > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
> > 
> 
> 
> When I want to debug pulse I do
> 
> echo "autospawn = no" > ~/.pulse/client.conf
> 
> kill PA and run it from command line with -v option you can also
> use --log-level (man pulseaudio)
> 
> perhaps you can see what is the problem there. If not it might be dbus issue
> with permissions - check the dbus settings
> 
> Also some times it helps to remove the ~/.pulse directory and restart
> pulseaudio.
> 

So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my 
original command worked.

So now, suddenly from that update that started this thread, if I run the 
pactl command as an unprivileged user, it works fine. I have no idea why 
it changed but I'm just happy I have it working again.

Mark

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Bluetooth audio problem Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-03-03 16:30 +0100
  Re: Bluetooth audio problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-03 18:10 +0100
    Re: Bluetooth audio problem Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-03-22 15:30 +0100
      Re: Bluetooth audio problem deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-03-22 20:50 +0100
        Re: Bluetooth audio problem Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-03-23 08:50 +0100
      Re: Bluetooth audio problem Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-03-23 14:30 +0100
        Re: Bluetooth audio problem Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2019-04-01 17:10 +0200

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