[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] daemon: Stop session-started PA daemon when exiting X session

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:18 AM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2014-04-13 20:21, Balint Reczey wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch has been contributed through Debian's bug tracker.
>> Please review it and consider accepting it to the project's code base if
>> you find it useful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Balint
>
>
> Hi Balint,
>
> I wonder if the above can cause a problem if:
>
>  1) User starts X session + PulseAudio
>  2) The same user switches to something else (e g, a VT or SSH session),
> logs in, and starts using the PA daemon
>  3) User logs out of X session
>
> Now PulseAudio is killed, while still being in use by the user.

I would think the daemon is per-session, not per-user, given that
(until systemd --user works) we cannot track user stuff across
sessions.

But the core reason this patch is applied is that if pa is shutdown
after alsa, pa will store a volume of 0 (as alsa shutdown mutes all
the cards), so on reboot you have a 0 volume desktop. I think this is
a worse outcome than the alternative, as it is terrible for
accesibility.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler