<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I have noticed this behavior on occasion as well. It has caused far too many "sudo killall -9 pulseaudio" calls! On my system I always know because it warns about being unable to access my output device and then fails to run. Which distrib's are you packaging for again? Matt CJ van den Berg wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20080221151134.GA2016@prefect.vdbonline.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:18:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Anyway, to cut a long story short, I eventually found that it was actually libesound that was starting this process. If you run an application as root (e.g. firestarter - a gtk firewall thingy) that used libesound it would go through some code that checked for the existence of /etc/esd.conf. If this file did not exist, the bahaviour is such that the library will try to *autospawn "esd" by default*. This is in contrast to the default esd.conf shipped with esound which has auto_spawn=0 specified in it. Go figure! So to fix this problem I simply ship an /etc/esd.conf with the pulseaudio-esound-compat package. The alternative is to patch libesound to not do the auto spawn by default thing but this seemed cleaner. I hope this helps someone not go insane as I nearly did :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Very good-to-know info. Thanks for saving us from taking the same horrible journey! :-D </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>