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PULSE_SERVER does not redirect sound and/or redirected sound fails, eg mplayer says "AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused"

Asked by gregrwm

i'm trying to forward sound to another box. works fine on natty, fails on quantal. eg mplayer says: "AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused".

i have PULSE_SERVER pointing to a local port that i forward via ssh. this works under natty, and even while booted into quantal (with ssh launched from quantal), i can mount natty in a chroot, and forward sound via PULSE_SERVER. but outside the natty chroot, in quantal, it doesn't work.

i (intentionally) don't have pulseaudio installed, just pulseaudio-utils. if i remove everything in the home directory and /tmp for both quantal and natty, natty still works, quantal still doesn't.

what do i need to do?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you upgrade from Natty to Quantal? And in one upgrade jump?

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gregrwm (gregrwm) said : 		#2

i installed quantal core in a fresh partition and added lubuntu-desktop.

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gregrwm (gregrwm) said : 		#3

after installing via quantal core, /etc/hosts was empty. the system worked otherwise, perhaps surprisingly. with the usual content in /etc/hosts, this problem resolved.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

well, yeah. The system needs to talk to the pulse server via localhost, which needs to resolve to 127.0.0.1. I'm surprised anything worked at all. Even sudo needs this resolution to work.....