Pulseaudio Connection Refused

PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused ...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/445386/pulseaudio-server-connection-failure-connection-refused-debian-stretch

It might be because either your pulseaudio driver is broken and/or has permissions set to root. I had solved this problem with the following commands : # clean and reinstall pulseaudio sudo apt-get remove --purge alsa-base pulseaudio sudo apt-get install alsa-base pulseaudio sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get -y autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && …

PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused · …

https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi/issues/255

sound - Why am I getting this "Connection to PulseAudio ...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/70560/why-am-i-getting-this-connection-to-pulseaudio-failed-error/80090

424621 – *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=424621

Steps to Reproduce: 1. open gnome-terminal as root or as normal user. 2. give command aplay <any sound file name> 3. Actual results: *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused aplay: main:546: audio open error: Connection refused Expected results: It should play sound.

Pulseaudio error connection refused. - Raspberry Pi Forums

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=1547829

That is when I discovered GQRX had gone. I had to re-install it. And when I tried to run it, it complained about the missing pulse audio files. So, there you have it. GQRX seems to depend on Pulseaudio, but pulseaudio doesn't work correctly with bluetooth - it makes the connection but fails to route the audio through to the device.

[PulseAudio] Connection refused / Multimedia and Games ...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89623

Hi, I am trying to install PulseAudio, but so far I have little luck. I followed the ArchWiki, however I keep getting the message: Connection failed: connection refused (both in pavucontrol and mplayer). Here is some relevant info: $ groups wheel kvm network audio optical storage power users vboxusers pulse pulse-access pulse-rt lpadmin.

[kubuntu] PulseAudio - Connection Failed: Connection …

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=802367

linux - Alsa and PulseAudio (csound): Connection Refused ...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/557454/alsa-and-pulseaudio-csound-connection-refused

... done Elapsed time at end of score sort: real: 0.001s, CPU: 0.001s displays suppressed 0dBFS level = 1.0 orch now loaded audio buffered in 256 sample-frame blocks ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused *** Cannot open device 'default' for audio input: Connection refused Failed to initialise real time audio input …

[pulseaudio-discuss] paplay : connection refused

https://pulseaudio-discuss.freedesktop.narkive.com/qpNHaUTS/paplay-connection-refused

Cannot open /dev/dsp: Connection refused So to troubleshoot I tried: paplay test.wav Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused pulseaudio is running: pacmd ls Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB. Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 40, size: 2.1 MiB.