'Twas brillig, and Neil Wilson at 26/09/09 15:10 did gyre and gimble: > Any suggestions as to what is going on here and how to fix it? It smells like a race somewhere. (e.g. pulseaudio is being told about a device before it's actually ready for reading (i.e. before consolekit has told udev to update the ACLs)). You've not said which version of pulse nor which detection mechanism, but I'll assume 0.9.18 and module-udev-detect. What version of udev do you have? You should have at least 146 but if you are on 145 then you should apply this patch: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/udev/devel/0001-enumeration-move-ALSA-control-devices-to-the-end-of-.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup (it is included in udev 146) Hope that's the problem. 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/]