<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <tt>Hi Tanu,</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>thanks a lot for your answer and suggestion.</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>First of all I have to apologize for getting something wrong.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>I wrote:</tt> "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." <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">That´s incorrect. In fact it´s like this: the fact that pulseaudio is still running indeed prevents the shutdown . I mixed it up with another project of mine. Sorry about that. Now to your suggestion: I looked up /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. The "exit-idle-time"-value is currently set like so: ; exit-idle-time = 20 The man-pages say: "Terminate the daemon after the last client quit and this time in seconds passed." Well, I think with the semicolon in front that value wasn´t set at all, right? So I´d have to get rid of the semicolon and then set "exit-idle-time = 0". Would that be the way to go? Greetings. Rosika P.S.: I still don´t understand why there are two proceses running 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 </pre> </body> </html>