On Thursday 14 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Running paman from a shell gets a connection refused, and I don't see >> anything in /etc/rc.d/init.d to start a server which could then refuse the >> connection. >> >> And of course my system is now silent. Consulting First Steps, I tried >> "pulseaudio -nC" and got sort of a prompt, which when I enter "help", >> spits out a long list of options. As I'm sitting there contemplating the >> next step, my kde related sound effects to indicate the type of incoming >> mail are now working again. >> >> I've done a killall on it and restarted with some of the other options, >> but they all exit for various permissions problems. And I think my audio >> is still working but I have not tested all paths. >> >> A ps -ea shows its running, and an lsof|grep pulse returns a lengthy list. >> But nothing has made it to dmesg or messages. >> >> padevchooser is there, but gives no output anyplace. A ^C kills it back >> to the shell prompt. >> >> pavucontrol runs, puts up a connection refused box and exits when the box >> is closed. >> >> pavumeter (--record) only show the refused box. >> >> Next? > >Dumb question - do you have X running? yes of course. >If so, is root logged into >the GUI? Ditto. >I believe these 3 programs are all GUI programs, and even >root will get a connection refused message if another user is logged in. Maybe I'm dense, but what the heck has x running as root, a visual interface, got to do with what is supposed to be an audio application? >Mikkel -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) QOTD: If you're looking for trouble, I can offer you a wide selection. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
