No sound upon reinstall of Fedora

[GammaPoint]

Hi, last night I flirted with Ubuntu and put it on my system, only to realize that I was much more comfortable with the Fedora way of doing things. So I put Fedora back on. However, I cannot play any audio now. If I try to play a sound with mplayer, for example, I get :

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Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
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*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Connection refused
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Does anyone know what the problem is? I can go to the sound tests and can hear the 'beep', but don't hear anything when I play music or movies.

[mbokil]

open up a shell and run 'pulseaudio' The pulseaudio server is down or didn't start on startup.

[GammaPoint]

Interesting. I tried doing this as normal user and I received the following error:

[bmalone@localhost ~]$ pulseaudio
W: polkit.c: Failed to show grant dialog: Unable to lookup exe for caller
W: polkit.c: PolicyKit responded with 'auth_admin_keep_always'
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
E: main.c: Failed to create '/tmp/pulse-bmalone': Operation not permitted


I then did the same as root with the following output:

[root@localhost bmalone]# pulseaudio
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.
ALSA lib control.c:909snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
ALSA lib control.c:909snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0


I then opened another terminal and tried mplayer as normal user, which didn't work (with the same error message). I then logged in as root and did the same, and the song plays....

So my question is, how do I play music without being root?

[GammaPoint]

Okay, I changed ownership of pulse-bmalone in /tmp to bmalone:bmalone from root:root. Now I can play music. I don't know why I didn't have this problem before and why it just showed up recently.

Thanks for the help mbokil

[firefox791]

My problem is a similar one:
i don't hear the startup melody that accompanies a successful login and signalizes reaching the desktop, and totem, rythmbox and skype (all use pulse, i found out) dont work (VLC does work, but i guess it doesnt run on pulse...)

when i try to use terminal to help things out i get:

[(Username)@localhost ~]$ pulseaudio
N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
[(Username)@localhost ~]$

running it as root:

[(Username)@localhost ~]$ sudo pulseaudio
[sudo] password for (Username): 
W: main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL

trying as normal user again: the same error, and as root again the same story. any Ideas? it seem there's a problem with ALSA.

~fox

[firefox791]

I've found an answer to my Problem: It seems i didn't have the permissions to start pulse, so i added myself to the pulse-access and pulse-rt groups, and now all works fine.

~fox