The meta commands .verbose and .noverbose, as documented in man pulse-cli-syntax, throws this error: `Invalid meta command: .verbose`. This happens both with an initfile and with pulseaudio -nC. Please adjust the manpage, or repair the verbosity-switch. Pulseaudio 3.0 on updated archlinux.
Thanks for reporting! The support for the .verbose metacommand was removed in 2004, but it has somehow survived in the documentation. I removed the command from the man page. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=9849a21587e3b39f86fe5bf620ce285043cede06
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