Error - [supervisor.host.sound] Update PulseAudio information Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory

See it back again, Supervisor 214 on 0.107.7

Also Seeing the same issue. Running the current version. Version 214 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Same hereā€¦ Running on RaspberryPi 3B+ with HassOS 3.12, HA 0.107.7 and Supervisor 214.

Running Home Assistant Supervised 0.108.6 on Ubuntu 18.04.4 with Supervisor 217 and the System Log repeatedly reports the same message (approximately every 2 hours):

20-04-19 15:29:28 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.sound] Update PulseAudio information
Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory

exact same versions, still persisting. I do have an ā€œaudioā€ group

20-04-20 08:54:08 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/overkill32/hassio-addons repository
20-04-20 08:54:08 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/hassio-addons/repository repository
20-04-20 08:54:08 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons repository
20-04-20 08:54:09 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on https://github.com/esphome/hassio repository
20-04-20 08:54:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store] Load add-ons from store: 69 all - 0 new - 0 remove
20-04-20 08:54:12 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.updater] Fetch update data from https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json
20-04-20 10:47:28 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.info] Update local host information
20-04-20 10:47:28 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.utils.gdbus] Call org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll on /org/freedesktop/hostname1
20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.services] Update service information
20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.utils.gdbus] Call org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.ListUnits on /org/freedesktop/systemd1
20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.network] Update local network DNS information
20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.utils.gdbus] Call org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll on /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/DnsManager
20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.sound] Update PulseAudio information
Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory

Iā€™m getting this too.

HA 109.1
Supervisor 222

Has this thread gone quiet because it is so common everyone decided it was normal or is there a way to stop it?

I canā€™t speak for anyone else but that sums up my situation. The message appears regularly and, at least so far, I havenā€™t noticed any side-effects so itā€™s more of a nuisance, polluting my log, than a noticeable deficiency.

I see it as well. I assume it is benign because the issue was closed (twice). More importantly, there is no warning or error.

https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/issues/1612

https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/issues/1562

And apparently this error message is not an errorā€¦

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Could someone clarify for me how when an ERROR is in you log file it is ā€œNOTā€ an issue?

I get that it is not causing issues with the system as a whole but there is obviously something going wrong otherwise there would not be an error message in the log.

I suppose all we really want to know is what is causing the error and how do we fix it to stop it appearing?

Cheers.

20-04-20 10:47:29 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.sound] Update PulseAudio information
Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory

Itā€™s not an error itā€™s just logged information. See the tag INFO above it?

If it was an error it would be ERROR.

Itā€™s classed as information because it is not causing any issues. Itā€™s just something you donā€™t use and have not configured. If you were using the Pulse Audio component and were wondering why it wasnā€™t working this might be useful information to you. As you are not using it, ignore it.

@tom_l, thanks for bringing some light to these strange log messages.

Itā€™s not an error itā€™s just logged information. See the tag INFO above it?

If it was an error it would be ERROR .

You are saying that the two lines are a single log entry, even though they have different colors? Why do they have different colors? I must say that I find it counter-intuitive, and from looking at this thread, Iā€™m not the only one.

Itā€™s classed as information because it is not causing any issues. Itā€™s just something you donā€™t use and have not configured. If you were using the Pulse Audio component and were wondering why it wasnā€™t working this might be useful information to you. As you are not using it, ignore it.

It is strange that the log provides Info on components that do not exist at my home. I do not want to see millions of messages regarding the millions of types of products that I donā€™t have at my home.

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same error here on HASSIO 0.117.2 and supervisor 2020.10.1ā€¦

Itā€™s not an error.

One is the attempt, the other the response.

It is a part of Home Assistant, not an external integration. Also, over exaggerating much?

Itā€™s one message every few hours, not ā€œmillionsā€.

Yes, ā€œmillionsā€ is an exaggeration. :slightly_smiling_face:

It is best that all integrations would use the same design guideline. If the guidelines are that unused integrations log a couple of messages when they check that they are still irrelevant, then we would easily get to hundreds of irrelevant log entries. Right?

@tom_l, wouldnā€™t it make sense to reduce the log level of those messages to Debug?

Itā€™s not an integration. Itā€™s part of the supervisor. Also you get your wish with the latest supervisor update: