macOS 10.13 changed some rules around forking, which causes PulseAudio's autospawn to fail. Reproduction: Assuming the daemon is not running, this will fail with "Connection refused": $ pactl stat Workaround: Set the environment variable OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY to YES $ export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES $ pactl stat Tested with 11.1 compiled for High Sierra from Homebrew. Found the workaround here: http://sealiesoftware.com/blog/index.html
Since I don't use macOS myself, and probably there's nobody else either who would follow the bug tracker and use macOS, I decided to ask for help from some past contributors on the mailing list: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2018-April/029749.html Let's see if anything comes out of that.
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