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