Mono sound only, PulseAudio and Fedora 9... or "where's system-config-sound?"

[David Timms]

Antti Aspinen wrote:
> As of today I cannot get sound at all. PulseAudio Volume Control keeps
> ringing saying that "connection failed: connection refused". And Phonon
> says that PulseAudio doesn't work. All the rest of the apps say that
> they cannot do playback at all and give various error reports.

The pulseaudio sound server isn't running. check it with:
$ ps aux |grep pul
I get:
davidt    2896  0.0  0.3  32956  4676 ?        Sl   May27   3:32 
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog
davidt    2986  0.0  0.1   5216  1676 ?        S    May27   0:00 
/usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper

Do you have a smolt hardware profile that you could point to ?