On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:41:17PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > I believe they just provide the script. They certainly do not use it by > default and in a typical setup it is not activated by default. 99% of > their users they will totally ignore this script and it will not be run. I'm typing this now on a laptop running pretty much a virgin install of Ubuntu 10.04 and /etc/init.d/pulseaudio is set to run by default. I'll try disabling that later and see what happens. It's possible I enabled that for default without remembering, but the default behavior of apt-get when installing a package which provides an init script is to turn the init script on. Maybe the other package managers have a different default. > "pulseaudio&" will just try to run PA and when it detects one is already > running it exits. Ah, but when one _isn't_ running it just exits too. That's the problem. It doesn't indicate why it's failing either. > Generally speaking PA will then just automatically start again due to > it's auto-spawn capabilities. Wonder why that's not happening then. Wish it were leaving clues about the failure. Maybe starting system-wide meant it wouldn't start even once for the user, so won't respawn? > That said, after killing PA, you should generally run start-pulseaudio-x11 > script again (it's done automatically at login for you) to ensure the > correct X11 related modules are loaded into PA. I'll try that. Thanks, Whit
