On 13 January 2016 at 02:19, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Sun, 10.01.16 22:25, Tom Yan (tom.ty89 at gmail.com) wrote: > >> So I am recently experiencing some issue with pulseaudio (which I >> already filed a bug report: >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651) that it takes a >> long time to start. >> >> The thing is, I am thinking whether it exposed a problem of systemd as >> well. For example: >> >> Jan 10 21:31:33 localhost systemd[257]: Starting Sound Service... >> Jan 10 21:31:33 localhost systemd[257]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus. >> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Started Sound Service. >> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Reached target Default. >> Jan 10 21:31:39 localhost systemd[257]: Startup finished in 5.830s. >> >> As you can see, because of pulseaudio, it takes about 6 seconds to >> reach the default target. >> >> The reason I realise that pulseaudio is having this issue, is because >> I can actually "experience" the 6 seconds after I entered my password >> in the tty, if I have pulseaudio.service enabled. The login shell only >> pops up after the default target has been reached. > > Why would it wait for that? > > Also, PA taking 6s to start is quite something... Yeah, that's clearly a (separate) bug, being tracked at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651 -- Arun