I've posted this in the Fedora list and googled around without success, so this is my next stop. Long story short, I have Fedora 16, upgraded from F14 (and earlier), but pulseaudio is not running (or dying) for the gdm+gnome-shell session, although it *really* wants it. All normal users are fine. The side effect is that, some while after logging in, or possibly as I switch users, I get an entry in /var/log/messages every few seconds about a pulseaudio authorisation error. I believe I have tracked these down to gdm's gnome-shell & gnome-settings-daemon trying to talk to *my* login's pulseaudio (as it's the first login and is sitting on the default port?). Unlike my freshly-installed laptop, and the VM I created to test it, I don't seem to have one run from start-up, although it might be stopping before or as I log in. I've tried running pulseaudio manually as gdm, but it seems to just exit by its own volition. I'm running strace again on a daemon I've run up now. I tried earlier today from my laptop but couldn't see anything but a seeming deliberate clean exit. It doesn't automatically respawn like I'd expect. I've even copied the X11-start-pulseaudio .desktop file into gdm's autostart directory, and this seems to (usually) work from power up (I actually get an audio icon in gdm's gnome-shell's panel that makes a sound) but it goes when gdm's pulseaudio does, which I *think* is when I first log in. Has anyone got any ideas as to where I should start looking at this? What's *supposed* to start pulseaudio? I replaced pulseaudio in my test VM with a script that would do a ps and then run the real pulseaudio, and that indicates that it's gnome-settings-daemon that's spawning the pa exe, but I can't find anything explicit in the gsd source. I'm running the rtkit daemon, I have gdm in the pulse-rt and pulse-access groups (along with all local users), and I *don't* have anyone in the audio group (which I think causes lock problems). I am having random rhythmbox lock-up issues which may or may not be related, and I *used* to have a problem with gdm locking pulseaudio out (such the my user account could often not access sound), so I tried a couple of fixes at the time to stop gdm trying to make sounds. I *think* I've undone these, but may have something stray hanging about. I can't see anything in files, gconf or dconf, though. All ideas gratefully received, this is driving me potty! -- [phoenix at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature [phoenix at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [phoenix at fnx ~]# exit
