Description of problem: Since I upgraded to Fedora 8, most programs are unable to play sound unless I manually start pulseaudio. Something as basic as functioning sound should work without starting something at the command line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pulseaudio-0.9.8-5.fc8 gnome-session-2.20.2-1.fc8 xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8 (not really sure what's applicable here) How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. log in to GNOME 2. $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/error.wav 3. $ pulseaudio & 4. $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/error.wav Actual results: After (2), no sound is produced, and I get the message: *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused aplay: main:546: audio open error: Connection refused After (4), sound works, and aplay prints: Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/error.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono Expected results: Sound works after step (2).
Going into gconf-editor and changing desktop -> gnome -> sound -> enable_esd to true seems to have fixed this (and I think also the warnings in bug 428056, assuming that the pulseaudio output shows up in my .xsession-errors which it looks like it does). But it seems like that should have been selected by default (or not using a pref that did something else in older gnome versions?).
This should work this way and is the default. More on this: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/172-Wednesday-Why-How-does-Pulseaudio-start.html
This is a GNOME bug. There shouldn't be a preference for "make my sound work". I think the issue here is that David had an entry in GConf to turn ESD off which was carried over from an earlier install. Reopening this, and will reassign to gnome-session.
Patch is pending upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533198
gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.2.1-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.2.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gnome-settings-daemon'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-5520
gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.2.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.