On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 05:08:25PM +0200, Björn Försterling wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am using the pulse audio simple API in a C program and I am getting the > following error message when using the "pa_simple_new" function: > > 28 simple = pa_simple_new(NULL, "Audio Playback", PA_STREAM_PLAYBACK, > NULL, "playback", &ss, NULL, NULL, &pa_error); > (gdb) > [New Thread 0x7ffff34416c0 (LWP 3517)] > Failed to load cookie file from cookie: Not a directory > > The audio file that I am playing in the later part of the program is still being > played correctly. > But how do I suppress (or solve) this error message? > > I tried setting the environment variable PULSE_COOKIE like this: > export PULSE_COOKIE="~/.config/pulse/cookie" > But it did not help. (this "cookie" file exists) > > The return value of the pa_simple_new function is not NULL: > (gdb) p simple > $1 = (pa_simple *) 0x5555555592d0 > > And the pa_error integer that I am trying to get an error code with stays at 0. > > Can someone please help me to debug this issue? The fact that you're getting this exact error message: > Failed to load cookie file from cookie: Not a directory implies that your environment variable is not getting picked up by your application. If you're launching your program from a shell, perhaps try directly setting the env var in the calling line, like so: $ PULSE_COOKIE=~/.config/pulse/cookie ./my-pulse-using-executable --Sean
