pulseaudio not authenticated

[Colin Law]

On 6 February 2016 at 07:59, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is very strange.
>
> I have been using my HPG210 to watch videos thru a LG monitor via HDMI.
> Last night I could not get any sound.  I went to Synaptic to reinstall pulse
> and there it says that pulse audio is not authenticated!  I reinstalled and
> now have no sound at all!
>
> 1:4.0 is the version number it gives in synaptic.

Which version of Ubuntu and copy/paste the output from
apt-cache policy pulseaudio
please.

Colin