On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:00:26AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > ubuntu comes with pulseaudio 0.9.5-5ubuntu4.1. > > > > I doubt that. Last time I checked they ship it, but don't install it > > by default. > > Mmmh, maybe it got pulled in by some dependency. > > > > So, why is pulseaudio hanging out to my sound playing devices if it's not able > > > to play anything? > > > Shouldn't it just syslog that it can't talk to alsa (it didn't), and then > > > exit and release my devices? > > > > Most likely Ubuntu didn't patch the esd unix socket path in PA to > > match what they patched it in their esd packages. They use a > > non-standard path there, so they should do the same in PA. > > Argh. Can you give me a very quick version of what it can/should be > and in which files? > I can likely patch that (binary edit or symlinks) In case other people ask, the workaround is: gandalf:/tmp$ ln -s .esd .esd-`id -u` > > Please report this to the Ubuntu BTS. > > Will do, once I know which files are wrong and what they should be :) I missed it the first time, but found it now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/108577 Making the symlink seems to fix the problem. I've updated the bug and will prod the ubuntu folks some more for getting that fixed. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/
