[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio still running before shutdown

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sun, 2019-04-21 at 13:37 +0200, Christian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
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> INFO:
> my system: Linux/Lubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, 64 bit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I shut down my system with the terminal-command "shutdown -H -P +0" or
> "poweroff". But the observed phenomenon may also be seen when
> shutting down from the panel.
> 
> I changed my grub-config from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noplymouth" in order to get screen output
> of the logs.
> 
> And here I see an entry reading "failed unmounting /home" (in red).
> After that came some more messages which all were O.K. Everything else
> was in green with an "O.K." in front.
> 
> I don´t know why I get this message because the shutdown works well
> despite that error message. In fact it shuts down really fast.
> 
> So I took alook at journalctl. It shows me the following:
> 
> [...]
> Apr 05 18:16:19 rosika-Lenovo-H520e umount[25556]: umount: /home: das
> Ziel wird gerade benutzt. # /home is currently in use
> Apr 05 18:16:19 rosika-Lenovo-H520e systemd[1]: Unmounting
> /media/rosika/28BC-DAFC...
> Apr 05 18:16:19 rosika-Lenovo-H520e systemd[1]: Unmounting
> /media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1...
> Apr 05 18:16:19 rosika-Lenovo-H520e systemd[1]: home.mount: Mount
> process exited, code=exited status=32
> Apr 05 18:16:19 rosika-Lenovo-H520e systemd[1]: Failed unmounting /home.
> # <-------------
> [...]
> 
> I found out that a pulseaudio process seems to be the culprit.
> 
> So I looked up the proceses before shutdown:
> 
> ps -ax | grep -i pulseaudio
>  1515 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>  2348 ?        Sl     0:01 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>  3820 pts/2    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto -i pulseaudio
> 
> There are two pulseaudio processes running (!). I don´t know why. This
> is the state immediately before shutdown. All programmes are closed
> and nothing should be running regarding pulseaudio.
> 
> So I perform " killall pulseaudio" immediately before shutdown. After
> that I get no error messages at all.
> 
> Does anybody know what can be done about this?
> 
> Tnx a lot in advance.

Does setting "exit-idle-time = 0" in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf help?

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