Error spam when pulseaudio is not active

[Daniel Richard G.]

This concerns xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin 0.4.1-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 18.04/bionic.

In an Xfce desktop session, when this package is installed, and Pulseaudio is not active, I see a steady procession of these messages in ~/.xsession-errors:

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(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:20.688: Disconected from the PulseAudio server. Attempting to reconnect in 5 seconds.

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:20.689: pa_context_connect() failed: Access denied

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:25.688: Disconected from the PulseAudio server. Attempting to reconnect in 5 seconds.

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:25.689: pa_context_connect() failed: Access denied

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:30.687: Disconected from the PulseAudio server. Attempting to reconnect in 5 seconds.

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:30.688: pa_context_connect() failed: Access denied

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:35.687: Disconected from the PulseAudio server. Attempting to reconnect in 5 seconds.

(wrapper-2.0:2036): pulseaudio-plugin-WARNING **: 17:00:35.688: pa_context_connect() failed: Access denied
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If the plugin is going to poll for Pulseaudio, it should print a warning at most once. An alternative reasonable behavior could be to exit altogether (since a PA volume control is useless without PA).

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Please forward this issue to the Xfce bug tracker. Thanks.

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/