On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:05 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On 6 August 2015 at 05:14, Peter Meerwald <pmeerw at pmeerw.net> wrote: > > > > > This ensures systemd knows when pulseaudio finishes loading, thus > > > never > > > marking pulseaudio as active if startup fails. > > > > the notify thing doesn't work together with --daemonize; > > This can be solved by either setting NotifyAccess=all in the unit or > passing the main pid back to systemd at fork time (I haven't actually > tried this but should work). The latter should be the best option of > these 2, > but maybe we should just document the --no-daemonize requirement? I > doubt there is actually a need to run pulseaudio daemonized uner > systemd. Does this problem only exist when PulseAudio is managed by systemd? That is, the sd_notify() calls are harmless if PulseAudio was started via some other means? If so, then I agree with Felipe - I think it's sufficient to document that --daemonize shouldn't be used in systemd unit files. -- Tanu
