Colin Guthrie schrieb: > 'Twas brillig, and Haug B?rger at 12/12/10 10:59 did gyre and gimble: > >> The leatest Ubuntu has a serious security bug caused by pulseaudio. If >> you configure pammount to mount a crypted home directory it is not able >> to unmount it because pulseaudio has files in use (.pulse/*). You can >> not even kill the daemon because it is set to user session. >> >> So, how can you stop the pulseaudio user session? In the hope that this >> releases the files. >> >> Is it really necessary for the deamon to lock the files that you can not >> unmount or is this a bug? >> > > It's quite deliberate. PA has a timeout that prevents it from closing > immediate. This means that if PA autospawns, it will stick around for a > little while in case it's needed again (while startup is fairly quick, > we do have to probe the hardware so it does take time). This is > primarily for console applications rather than X11 however, as under X11 > a Session Manager module is loaded which keeps PA alive for the duration > of the X session. > > You can make a change in daemon.conf to set exit-idle-time to 0. This > should allow PA to exit when the X11 session exits. > This doesn't work. Probably because you might have another user session with X11 active. This means PA is not closed and gdm can not close the session properly. I don't care if PA still runs but why does it lock files in my home directory? It is not even possible as root to shut down a user session. Gdm can not even kill the user session. This makes PA a pain in the a... So, how can you stop the pulseaudio user session?
