> What do you want to tell me here? It seems your pulseaudio > installation is a bit buggy. I can't reproduce.
Apart from the bit about /usr/bin/pulseaudio being a script which simply records that pulseaudio has been started and then execs /usr/bin/ pulseaudio.real, pulseaudio and alsamixer are pristine jessie. The asound.conf, which does not refer to pulseaudio at all, is modified; default.pa is also modified, but it should not even be read in this case. I'm sorry I forgot to remove that debugging script at /usr/bin/pulseaudio but the result is the same with that removed. > default.pa comes from pulseaudio or xrdp package. There is no > instruction to start pulse in any alsa package. You are quite correct. The culprit is /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf placed there by the package pulseaudio. If you install pulseaudio and that file then exists, can you then reproduce? (Please see my very last paragraph, too!) Is this now a bug in pulseaudio? And what severity? I'd say this breaks unrelated software! > It seems that pulse is fired up by mpd? I think pulseaudio gets started by libasound.so.2 when it parses alsa.conf.d because pulseaudio has placed the above file there. Interestingly enough, said file starts with a comment: # PulseAudio alsa plugin configuration file to set the pulseaudio plugin as # default output for applications using alsa when pulseaudio is running. I would agree that this is probably the most commonly desired behaviour *when* pulseaudio is running. However, I would not expect this to start a fresh pulseaudio daemon when one is *not* running yet! One further bit of information which I just realised might be relevant: there is a pulseaudio server running on the machine, but it belongs to another user. Could it be pulseaudio/alsa just naively think "pulseaudio running, let's use it" without considering whether they actually *can* use it or not? And when it cannot be used, a new daemon is fired up? Just guessing. Cheers, Juha
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