On Wed, April 8, 2020 8:14 am, Iain Mott wrote: > no, a pulse config directory is created in /var/lib/asterisk/.config/ > > the entry for asterisk in /etc/passwd is: > > asterisk:x:124:130:Asterisk PBX > daemon,,,:/var/lib/asterisk:/usr/sbin/nologin Perhaps there is no pulse instance running for user asterisk. When you used aplay from your user account it would have played through a pulse instance running as your user, the asterisk user account would not have access to that instance. You need to start pulse as user asterisk. Watch out for details on how to start, for example the man page has a note about starting from systemd services: --start Start PulseAudio if it is not running yet. This is different from starting PulseAudio without --start which would fail if PA is already running. PulseAudio is guaranteed to be fully initialized when this call returns. Implies --daemonize. -D | --daemonize[=BOOL] Daemonize after startup, i.e. detach from the terminal. Note that when running as a systemd service you should use --daemonize=no for systemd notification to work. -- Chris Caudle _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user