I can confirm this bug as well when running X as root. But it is not a problem when X is run as any "normal" user.
I did a bit of sleuthing tonight, and the underlying problem is: For a regular user, when X is initiating: 1. first, the gnome-settings-daemon makes the following call: /bin/bash /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog 2. Then, later in the X start-up sequence, x-session-manager calls: /bin/sh /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 (as defined in /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop) But, for the root user, the step #1 is never happening (i.e., gnome-settings-daemon never attempts to start the pulseaudio process). So step #2 fails with a connection refused. I don't know enough about gnome or gnome-settings-daemon to know why it isn't starting pulse for root. Hopefully someone with a good background in gnome can say why it starts pulseaudio for regular users but not root. -- pulseaudio not launched when loggin as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549074 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
