This is a Fedora10 installation. Everything worked fine in my Ferdora9 installation. Here are some facts. 1) Logged in as a normal user, xmms player works. 2) Logged in as a normal user I can send text to festival with correct speech. 3) As root, cron job works (I have the time being said via festival). 4) As root, via commandline, I get this error; Connection failure: Connection refused 5) Log file shows this when nagios has an error to report. Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:33:37 localhost pulseaudio[7413]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 22 08:35:54 localhost pulseaudio[7539]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 44099 Hz. Jan 22 08:36:20 localhost pulseaudio[7622]: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 44099 Hz. Jan 22 08:36:35 localhost pulseaudio[7667]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:36:35 localhost pulseaudio[7667]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 22 08:36:35 localhost pulseaudio[7667]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:36:35 localhost pulseaudio[7667]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 22 08:38:55 localhost pulseaudio[7734]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:38:55 localhost pulseaudio[7734]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. Jan 22 08:38:55 localhost pulseaudio[7734]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied Jan 22 08:38:55 localhost pulseaudio[7734]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed. I have added user nagios to these groups. pulse, pulse-rt, pulse-access Googling I found this, http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/426 but there does not seem to be solution posted. This command returns nothing. fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp* I start in runlevel 3, so no Gnome or xwindow processes start. I have done nothing to modify original configuration of pulseaudio. Any ideas? Durwin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines