On Tue, 05.05.09 19:51, Saeed Abbassi (saeed144 at gmail.com) wrote: > Dear List members, > > I have 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686; gnome. Which version of PA? Why are you using F9? F10 has been out for quite some time. > aplay plays well, I hear through headphone. > When I run a Java applicaiton which uses sound system, it says > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused That means PA is not reachable, usually because it is not running. > grep pulseaudio /var/log/messages > Apr 30 12:38:50 system pulseaudio[2551]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink > input: too many inputs per sink. Some (presumably broken) application seems to create a lot of streams to PulseAudio. PA will eventually refuse any further connections for security reasons. > *pulseaudio[2551]: module-alsa-sink.c: Error opening PCM device front:0: > Device or resource busy* Some other application seems to have blocked access to the audio device to the effect that PA cannot use it anymore. > [user1 at system modprobe.d]$ getfacl /dev/snd/* > all the same > # file: dev/snd/controlC0 > # owner: root > # group: root > user::rw- > group::rw- > mask::rw- > other::--- This looks like borkage with ConsoleKit which would normally add the user that is active on the current console to the ACL of all devices. > > pulseaudio -vvv > W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted > W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted > > E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: No such file or > directory ALSA is not particularly thruthful about error codes. This might actually be a permission error, although on the first glance it does not seem so. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
