[pulseaudio-discuss] paplay : connection refused

[sean darcy]

On Fedora 20, I'm trying to play a bunch of opus files with opusdec,
which outputs to /dev/dsp. I tried padsp, but that doesn't work:

padsp opusdec test.opus
Decoding to 48000 Hz (2 channels)
Cannot open /dev/dsp: Connection refused

So to troubleshoot I tried:

paplay test.wav
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

  pulseaudio is running:

  pacmd ls
  Memory blocks currently allocated: 1, size: 63.9 KiB.
  Memory blocks allocated during the whole lifetime: 40, size: 2.1 MiB.
  Memory blocks imported from other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
  Memory blocks exported to other processes: 0, size: 0 B.
  Total sample cache size: 0 B.
  Default sample spec: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
  Default channel map: front-left,front-right
  Default sink name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
  Default source name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
  Memory blocks of type POOL: 1 allocated/1 accumulated.
  Memory blocks of type POOL_EXTERNAL: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
  Memory blocks of type APPENDED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
  Memory blocks of type USER: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
  Memory blocks of type FIXED: 0 allocated/39 accumulated.
  Memory blocks of type IMPORTED: 0 allocated/0 accumulated.
  24 module(s) loaded.
  .............

 From  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PulseAudio I've added:

load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1

to /etc/pulse/default.pa

I've checked all the boxes in the paprefs dialog.

Still no joy.

Even pactl fails:

pactl stat
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

systemlog doesn't show anything when I execute paplay. There are some 
log messages, but seem unrelated:

Jan 27 11:23:27 sixcore.server pulseaudio[3124]: GetManagedObjects() 
failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 
2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.66" (uid=505 pid=3124 
comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager" 
member="GetManagedObjects" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" 
destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=1478 
comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd ")
Jan 27 11:23:28 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2898]: GetManagedObjects() 
failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 
2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.67" (uid=504 pid=2898 
comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start ") 
interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager" 
member="GetManagedObjects" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" 
destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=1478 
comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd ")
Jan 27 11:50:36 sixcore.server pulseaudio[5835]: Daemon already running.
Jan 27 11:50:37 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2712]: module-x11-xsmp may not 
be loaded twice.
Jan 27 11:50:37 sixcore.server pulseaudio[2712]: Failed to load module 
"module-x11-xsmp" (argument: "display=:0.0 
session_manager=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/5613,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5613"): 
initialization failed.

selinux is permissive.

rpm -qa | grep ^pulse | sort
pulseaudio-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-devel-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-gconf-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-5.0-25.fc20.x86_64

Thanks for any help

sean