On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:29 AM Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:
So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my
original command worked.
So now, suddenly from that update that started this thread, if I run the
pactl command as an unprivileged user, it works fine.
Is it possible that you had previously started pulseaudio as root, and could no longer communicate with it as an unprivileged user?
I ask this having been a pulseaudio victim myself sometimes.