Bug 5571

Summary:	pulse audio and alsamixer broken
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Andy Liebman <AndrewL733>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description Andy Liebman 2012-04-23 18:50:38 CEST

After installing all Cauldron updates today, I noticed my pulseaudio volume control no longer runs.  I get: 

"Connect to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s"


I also get an error when trying to launch "alsamixer"

[andy@localhost ~]$ alsamixer
Home directory /home/andy not ours.
ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused

cannot open mixer: Connection refused


I am not sure when these problems began.  A few weeks ago both were working fine. Sound still plays in Skype and in web apps but cannot make adjustments, and cannot boost mic level.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-04-24 11:02:31 CEST

>"Connect to PulseAudio failed. Automatic retry in 5s" 
where do you that ?

>[andy@localhost ~]$ alsamixer
>Home directory /home/andy not ours.

This is strange, what show ll /home ?

>ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection
>refused

And with alsamixer -c0 ?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 Andy Liebman 2012-04-24 16:10:56 CEST

>> [andy@localhost ~]$ alsamixer
>> Home directory /home/andy not ours.

> This is strange, what show ll /home ?

 Okay, my home directory was somehow owned by root:root.  Chowning it to andy:andy fixed this problem.  As for how it got to belong to "root", I have no idea. Maybe I ran dolphin as root.  If I'm going to do that (i.e., to browse my OS X partition) I usually do "su -" first so as not to mess with anything in my home dir. 

Thanks for the tip.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID