F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 14 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Running paman from a shell gets a connection refused, and I don't see
>> anything in /etc/rc.d/init.d to start a server which could then refuse the
>> connection.
>>
>> And of course my system is now silent.  Consulting First Steps, I tried
>>  "pulseaudio -nC" and got sort of a prompt, which when I enter "help",
>> spits out a long list of options.  As I'm sitting there contemplating the
>> next step, my kde related sound effects to indicate the type of incoming
>> mail are now working again.
>>
>> I've done a killall on it and restarted with some of the other options,
>> but they all exit for various permissions problems.  And I think my audio
>> is still working but I have not tested all paths.
>>
>> A ps -ea shows its running, and an lsof|grep pulse returns a lengthy list.
>> But nothing has made it to dmesg or messages.
>>
>> padevchooser is there, but gives no output anyplace.  A ^C kills it back
>> to the shell prompt.
>>
>> pavucontrol runs, puts up a connection refused box and exits when the box
>> is closed.
>>
>> pavumeter (--record) only show the refused box.
>>
>> Next?
>
>Dumb question - do you have X running? 

yes of course.

>If so, is root logged into 
>the GUI?

Ditto.

>I believe these 3 programs are all GUI programs, and even 
>root will get a connection refused message if another user is logged in.

Maybe I'm dense, but what the heck has x running as root, a visual interface, 
got to do with what is supposed to be an audio application?

>Mikkel



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