package: x2goclient severity: important version:4.0.1.2
With X2Goclient 4.0.1.2, sound stopped working on Linux clients. Windows clients were unaffected.
Manually copying over the .pulse-cookie file while the session was
running fixed the issue.
Thanks to sunweaver (Mike#1) and dowdle on IRC, enough info was gathered
that I could put two and two together as to what went wrong.
Initial theory was that a patch was added for pulseaudio 4 (which keeps
the .pulse-cookie file in a different location), but said patch wouldn't
check for the version of pulseaudio actually installed on the client.
Debian Wheezy shipping with a 2.x release of pulseaudio, the location to
copy the file from wouldn't exist, which would explain the behavior we'd
seen.
Close, but no cookie. (Pun intended.)
stracing x2goclient shows this:
username@mycutelittletestmachine:~/.config/pulse$ grep -i cookie stracelog read(7, "\0\0\0\4\300\250\0\264\0\0010\0\22MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1\0"..., 4096) = 317 writev(6, [{"l\0\v\0\0\0\22\0\20\0\0\0", 12}, {"", 0}, {"MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1", 18}, {"\0\0", 2}, {"=[\272)\364\376\331l\327\242\365\307\302\2\17J", 16}, {"", 0}], 6) = 48 stat64("/home/username.config/pulse/cookie", 0xbfacb180) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/home/username.pulse-cookie", 0xbfacb180) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
So while it DOES attempt to check both possible locations, it actually checks in /home/username.config/pulse/cookie and /home/username.pulse-cookie while it should check in /home/username/.config/pulse/cookie and /home/username/.pulse-cookie - the slash between username and directory is missing.
Please fix ASAP.
-Stefan PS: If anyone actually remembers the game title the second part of the subject is referencing: Complimentary cookie for you!