Restarting pulseaudio? -

[Chris]

On 22 March 2010 16:11, NoSpaze <nospaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 11:36 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>> I tried as user:
>> [bobg at box6 ~]$ pulseaudio -D
>> E: main.c: Daemon startup failed.
>
> $ pulseaudio -k
> $ ps fax|grep pulse
>  4981 pts/1    S+     0:00  |   \_ grep pulse
>  4974 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>  4978 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> $ pulseaudio -k
> $ ps fax|grep pulse
>  5012 pts/1    S+     0:00  |   \_ grep pulse
>  4994 ?        S<sl   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
>  5007 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper
> $ pulseaudio -D
> E: main.c: Start des Daemons fehlgeschlagen.
>
> I got the same message. Seems like it restarts automatically.
> Sorry. I didn't know this new behaviour.

I've found that "pulseaudio -k" works for me in Fedora 12. However in
Fedora 11 I had to edit /etc/pulse/client.conf and add "autospawn =
no", then do "pulseaudio -k". Otherwise it will continually respawn.

--
Chris.