X2Go Bug report logs - #422
Windows PulseAudio 3.0 and later fail to start due to missing cookie

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: Michael DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 00:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: build-win32, pending

Found in version 4.0.1.3

Fixed in version 4.0.2.0

Done: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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TLDR: X2Go Client 4.0.2.0 will now keep on using the old cookie path
like "C:\Users\mike\.x2go\pulse\.pulse-cookie", same as it did with
4.0.1.3, no matter what version of PulseAudio is in use.

Tanuk (the lead developer on PulseAudio) clarified that pulseaudio.exe
(the PulseAudio server) isn't supposed to respect %PULSE_COOKIE%, only
the client libs (on the x2go server) are supposed to respect it. (I
should have read the pulseaudio (1) manpage more closely.) Instead,
pulseaudio.exe respects "auth-cookie", that we need to specify for
"module-native-protocol-tcp" in config.pa. "auth-cookie" doesn't seem
to be in the manpages, but it is specified in the 2nd link below.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75006
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index22h3

So I updated X2Go Client's Windows cookie handling logic to specify
old the path for PulseAudio 3.0 & later. I then removed the logic to
accommodate the new path.

The end result is that when X2GoClient 4.0.2.0 is released, we will
keep using the old cookie path, thus simplifying things for any power
users who need to manage their .x2go directory.

This change is in commits:
a6ab2c7879e3fb23edee2acaa4e3e21d978aa201
034afc36143134ce0fe272422bd410ca5125834e

And I've tested this change successfully.

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