Susan Cragin wrote: > I use Intrepid Studio, and have all updates as of today (29-Oct). > As of a few days ago, my distro does not shut down or start cleanly. It is because I have removed pulseaudio. > The same thing happens on shutdown when I have pulseaudio stopped with pactl exit. > Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what is the workaround when using wine? > pasuspender wine application.exe ?? > Thanks. > Susan You should report that to Ubuntu bugzilla as a major problem. Not having some sound server running shouldn't prevent you from starting / shutting down.