<quote who="Mike Chambers">
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 08:08 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
I ran into this error message setting up pulseaudio on an F7 system when I was trying to run the pulseaudio daemon system-wide. In my case, it was because /dev/snd/* wasn't readable by the daemon (which runs under the user "pulse" when running in system-wide mode). Not sure if this might be your problem.
root is owner/group of that path, so not sure what pulse is running under or if that is the problem.
I have what seems to be a fairly similar problem, listed in