Hey hey. Just saw your note in the comments. Hope you're still kicking it in chat. :)

yeah, still here :)

Cool, man. :) So... anything else you think I can do to poke and prod at this evil Pulseaudio bug?

The pactl lists you posted show that theres still multiple tunnels established between the client/server....we need to stop/disable those first.

Also, I see IPv6 connections there -- do you need IPv6? (it's buggy in Ubuntu sometimes for different apps)

I have no idea if I'm using IPv6, which I assume means I'm not using it. I'm willing to murder it in cold blood if it will help solve this problem.

Oh, you are, e.g. ""TCP/IP client from [240f:2:d8ad:1:dc0d:d4fd:ba4d:f185]:43550" that's an IPv6 address

Also, I just verified that the "automated" PulseAudio setup

that you have/had

works just fine with Flash between two physical machines, both with gigabit adapters, connected to a gigabit switch (no routing involved)

But, back to you

I think we need to shut off the existing tunnels first -- if you run paprefs on the client, is everything unchecked -- in all tabs?

I believe so... double checking now...

On the client machine, absolutely every option in every tab in paprefs is unchecked.

brb

Sorry, back. That's very odd -- have you done any custom PulseAudio config via text files? ANd could you please paste the content of files in /etc/pulse, i.e. cat /etc/pulse/* | pastebinit oughta do it.

The server machine is running Mythbuntu, and was installed fresh with 12.04, so I don't think it has any custom craziness.

The client is vanilla Ubuntu 12.04, but it was upgraded a couple times. Over the years there might have been a customization, maybe... but nothing that I can remember.

Getting that pastebin stuff for you now...

Wait... do you want that output from the client or server?

client, please

Okay. Hang on...

paste.ubuntu.com/1120947

I didn't know you could do that pastebin thing from the command line. That's handy.

gimme a sec

I think this is the problematic bit:

load-module module-switch-on-port-available

### Make some devices default
set-default-sink tunnel.mythbuntu.local.combined

particularly the set default sink part :)

So... take it out?

yes, please comment those two out with hashes in the beginning, and pulseaudio -k

yeah

There are 4 files in /etc/pulse

which one exactly do I edit? default.pa?

ah, right -- default.pa or system.pa, sorry, the pastebin doesn't show...

Okay, editing now...

Okay, both commented out. Kill pulseaudio?

Or reboot?

reboot, to be sure...

Just to double check, this is on the client, right?

yes, on the client...

Okay. I'll have to log out of this chat then because this is the machine in question. I'll be back in a few minutes with results. Oh... any command I should try after reboot to test? Just so I have something concrete to report?

paplay --server=192.168.0.4:4713 female.wav for example?

yes, just that please

well

before you reboot

since this is your current machine

can you just pastebin pactl list

if the tunnels are gone

no need to rebot

paste.ubuntu.com/1120971

OK, that looks good, and from the server, please (pactl list) (Restart pa on the server too)

One sec...

pa is restarting, give it a few seconds

I didn't stop it though. Also, it's still coming back with the same response.

Seems to be stuck that way.

can you restart PA, or the reboot the server will definitely do it

see if rebooting works, if not I'll be back in a bit to troubleshoot -- all we've changed were those two lines on the client...

Over, and out, and rebooting...