2011/7/28 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2011/7/28 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is >>> shut down? why cruel world? why? >> >> man pulse-daemon.conf: >> >> "exit-idle-time= Terminate the daemon after the last client quit and >> this time in seconds passed. Use a negative value to disable this >> feature. Defaults to 20." > > Ok, I'm afraid this didn't do the trick. I tried with a negative > value(-1) and with a big value (100) and it didn't work. > > This is what's going on: I start a normal tty login in lets say tty2 > then I run mplayer to reproduce an mp3 with pulse output which > automatically starts the pulseaudio daemon. Then, on tty1 I start > xinit (kde). When I close the xinit process (Ctrl+C on tty1) the pulse > daemon also dies and my mplayer stops playing :( Can you check your system logs for messages from pulseaudio, it should log the reason it shuts down. -t
