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no audio device for play/playwave commands

Dear friends,

I used to use the command line play and playwave commands in bash scripts, to play a sound when a milestone is reached in my multi-phase backup script.

In fedora 8, after Pulse audio system is not working any more.

However, KDE/Gnome programs can play music just fine. MPlayer/Totem can play movies with audio without problems too.
The Fedora8 tool in the System/Preferences/Hardware/Sound can play any sample sounds in the Sounds tab of Sound Preferences.

Looks like only play and playwave commands are not working. The error message is:

Code:

[miguel@oldbit ~]$ playwave /usr/share/sounds/k3b_success1.wav 

Couldn't open audio: No available audio device

[miguel@oldbit ~]$ play /usr/share/sounds/k3b_success1.wav 

*** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection refused

play stio: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device

[miguel@oldbit ~]$

How can I play sounds with commands play/playwave in Fedora8/Pulse ?

Do you have alsa installed? Try 'aplay sound.wav'

fixed but not explained

I tried aplay, but I got a similar message.

I have tried to create a new user and for my surprise the play/aplay commands for this new user works !

Well, was not entirely a surprise, once I got a similar problem and I solved just by moving, piece by piece, my user environment from the one account to the working one.

So it is something in my environment, not in the system itself. A tried to clean as much I can the environments variables, but not luck. I think it can be a corrupted configuration file somewhere ?

Thank you !