On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:38 AM Eyal Lebedinsky <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > There used to be an environment variable that pointed to the pulseaudio socket, but that seems to have changed (at least in F37). Check that the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable is set. It wasn't when I tested going through root. It should point to /run/user/<pid> which is most likely /run/user/1000 unless you aren't the first user. > > Yet, it is present and set up. I expect that it is lost by sudo... yes it is. > I set it up manually and got a similar error: > > [eyal@e7:~]$ sudo -i > [root@e7 ~]# set|grep XDG_RUNTIME_DIR > [root@e7 ~]# export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/500 > [root@e7 ~]# paplay /audio/ogg/beginning.ogg > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/500) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 500! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) > Connection failure: Connection refused > pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Give `sudo -E` a try. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
