On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 08:15 -0500, Larry Wyble wrote: > Whenever I go to start pulseaudio I get the following errors: > > W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/home/Larry/.config/pulse/cookie': > No such file or directory > W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key > '/home/Larry/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory > > I made sure that the directories exist, I deleted .esd_auth and started over, I made sure > I have pulseaudio in the passwd and group files. I don't know what else to do. The warnings are not serious. If the cookie exists in its old location (/home/Larry/.pulse-cookie), pulseaudio will use that. I get those same warnings and everything is working fine. We shouldn't print those warnings - doing that is a bug. -- Tanu