On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:18:46AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I eventually found that it was > actually libesound that was starting this process. If you run an > application as root (e.g. firestarter - a gtk firewall thingy) that used > libesound it would go through some code that checked for the existence > of /etc/esd.conf. If this file did not exist, the bahaviour is such that > the library will try to *autospawn "esd" by default*. This is in > contrast to the default esd.conf shipped with esound which has > auto_spawn=0 specified in it. Go figure! > > So to fix this problem I simply ship an /etc/esd.conf with the > pulseaudio-esound-compat package. The alternative is to patch libesound > to not do the auto spawn by default thing but this seemed cleaner. > > I hope this helps someone not go insane as I nearly did :) Very good-to-know info. Thanks for saving us from taking the same horrible journey! :-D -- CJ van den Berg mailto:cj at vdbonline.com xmpp:cj at vdbonline.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20080221/424bb246/attachment.pgp>
