Re: [Alsa-user] Visually-disabled cannot use aplay

[Paul M. <pau...@us...>]

Please keep the threading and reply to your own messages.

Am Samstag, den 29.05.2010, 12:38 -0600 schrieb Yan Mo:
> On Fedora 11 when I run aplay as root it gives the messages:
> 
>   ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect:
> Connection refused
> 
>   aplay: main:608: audio open error: Connection refused
> 
> These messages never showed up for Fedora 2 through 10. What are some
> workarounds for this? 

Am Montag, den 31.05.2010, 09:15 -0600 schrieb Yan Mo:
> Why can't aplay be used as root on a system with PulseAudio on it? Its
> unusual that something like this works for users but not root. This is
> a serious issue with both Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 where one cannot
> even uninstall PulseAudio without damaging the system!

As far as I know all distributions make the assumptions that root is
just used for administrative duties. Otherwise it is a security issue
and I guess PulseAudio is doing the same.

I think you can configure PulseAudio to run as root. You should look it
up in its Wiki [1] or in its manual pages.

If you still have questions please contact pulseaudio-discuss or contact
your distribution support forums and leave a reference here.

If I were you I would describe my use case a little more in depths. That
means why do you want to run `aplay` as root.


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://pulseaudio.org/