Please keep the threading and reply to your own messages. Am Samstag, den 29.05.2010, 12:38 -0600 schrieb Yan Mo: > On Fedora 11 when I run aplay as root it gives the messages: > > ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > Connection refused > > aplay: main:608: audio open error: Connection refused > > These messages never showed up for Fedora 2 through 10. What are some > workarounds for this? Am Montag, den 31.05.2010, 09:15 -0600 schrieb Yan Mo: > Why can't aplay be used as root on a system with PulseAudio on it? Its > unusual that something like this works for users but not root. This is > a serious issue with both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 where one cannot > even uninstall PulseAudio without damaging the system! As far as I know all distributions make the assumptions that root is just used for administrative duties. Otherwise it is a security issue and I guess PulseAudio is doing the same. I think you can configure PulseAudio to run as root. You should look it up in its Wiki [1] or in its manual pages. If you still have questions please contact pulseaudio-discuss or contact your distribution support forums and leave a reference here. If I were you I would describe my use case a little more in depths. That means why do you want to run `aplay` as root. Thanks, Paul [1] http://pulseaudio.org/
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