[pulseaudio-discuss] [systemd-devel] user unit blocking login shell from popping out because wanted by default target?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 10.01.16 22:25, Tom Yan (tom.ty89 at gmail.com) wrote:

> So I am recently experiencing some issue with pulseaudio (which I
> already filed a bug report:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651) that it takes a
> long time to start.
> 
> The thing is, I am thinking whether it exposed a problem of systemd as
> well. For example:
> 
> Jan 10 21:31:33 localhost systemd[257]: Starting Sound Service...
> Jan 10 21:31:33 localhost systemd[257]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.
> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Started Sound Service.
> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Reached target Default.
> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Startup finished in 5.830s.
> 
> As you can see, because of pulseaudio, it takes about 6 seconds to
> reach the default target.
> 
> The reason I realise that pulseaudio is having this issue, is because
> I can actually "experience" the 6 seconds after I entered my password
> in the tty, if I have pulseaudio.service enabled. The login shell only
> pops up after the default target has been reached.

Why would it wait for that?

Also, PA taking 6s to start is quite something...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat