you can try : echo "autospawn=no" >> ~/.pulse/client.conf pulseaudio will not start automatically now, I have not tried this but hope this works. and may be Colin can give you better suggestion. BR Himanshu <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:42 PM, <a href="mailto:Maystar@web.de">Maystar@web.de</a> <<a href="mailto:Maystar@web.de">Maystar@web.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hey, I'm running the latest kubuntu version on my machine with pulseaudio 0.9.22. For log-in I use the standard kdm. Since I've installed mpd, this daemon starts already while I'm booting the system. This is nice because I can listen music without log in. Unfortunately mpd starts pulseaudio as the user mpd and this instance is still running, if I'm logged in with my normal user account. Because this process blocks my sound card, all my user processes can't create any sound. So I have to stop mpd or kill the pulseaudio process of mpd to get my sound back. Both must be done as root after each boot. This is very inconvenient! Does anyone know a way to kill mpd's pulseaudio process on login? Thank Fabian _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>