Le 19/05/2018 à 18:47, Tanu Kaskinen a écrit : > Since the address contains the machine id, I'm pretty sure the address > is from the X server. Bingo! That's it! In fact, I'm managing this via a ssh -X (the idea is to manage audio applications on the distant machine, not on the local one) $ unset DISPLAY $ PULSE_LOG=99 pacat Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf' Using shared memfd memory pool with 1024 slots of size 64.0 KiB each, total size is 64.0 MiB, maximum usable slot size is 65472 Trying to connect to /var/run/pulse/native... Failed to open cookie file '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Failed to load authentication key '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory Failed to open cookie file '/home/clohr/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory Failed to load authentication key '/home/clohr/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory Got 0 bytes from cookie file '/home/clohr/.config/pulse/cookie', expected 256 SHM possible: yes Protocol version: remote 32, local 32 Negotiated SHM: no Memfd possible: yes Negotiated SHM type: private This seems ok, isn't it? But why does the client tries X11 stuff despite '/etc/pulse/client.conf' which says 'default-server = /var/run/pulse/native' ? > I don't know what you mean by "via pam.d", though. This: $ sudo netstat -lxp | grep pulse unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 474424 23106/systemd /run/user/65534/pulse/native unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 477788 23070/systemd /run/user/33/pulse/native unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 720251 8555/systemd /run/user/1000/pulse/native this due to /etc/pam.d/systemd-user & co. isn't it ? /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.socket /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pulseaudio.socket (systemd includes too much sorcery for me) > If you're using the system-wide mode, I think it's best to disable all > per-user pulseaudio services in systemd. I'm not sure how to do that, > maybe "sudo systemctl --global disable pulseaudio.socket > pulseaudio.service" does the trick. This should also prevent the wrong > address getting stored in X, because when start-pulseaudio-x11 tries to > load module-x11-publish, that will fail because systemd didn't start a > pulseaudio daemon for the user. Should I disable module-x11-publish ? Best regards Christophe