'Twas brillig, and Anil Seth at 29/06/09 11:49 did gyre and gimble: > Making the user a part of the audio group does not help. It would > appear that tty7 is not associated with any session. I have raised it > as a bug in ck for fedora 11. Can you post the Fedora bug link please? I think I have a similar report for a user (not quite the same case, but it's similar enough to cross reference) in Mandriva. That said, the user has closed this bug, but I'm not convinced the root cause is actually solved yet! https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51813 Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]