Popatopalous wrote: > [code] $ gconftool-2 -s --type=bool > /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility false > $ mozilla-firefox -safe-mode[/code] Not quite sure what this has got to do with pulseaudio... I think this could be releated to permissions problems or perhaps Arts or some other application doing bad things to pulse and locking it up. There is also a lingering problem with something somewhere changing the permissions on /tmp/pulse-$USER to root:root which I've not 100% resolved yet (I thought I had fixed it). The best forum for this is in mdv bugzilla or on the cooker at mandrivalinux.org mailing list. I am the Mandriva pulseaudio maintainter so we'll hopefully get to the bottom of it there ;) Col.