Package: pulseaudio Version: 0.9.21-3 Severity: normal the reason for pulseaudio's init-script failing miserably is that it assumes old pid-file behaviour.
pulseaudio now uses a "randomized" pid directory, not /tmp/pulse_$USER anymore (see pa_pid_file_create() in pulsecore/pid.c) result: the start-stop-daemon op looks at the wrong pidfile and refuses to shut pulseaudio down. the man page is outdated and still describes the old behaviour, as per http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08017.html unfortunately i haven't found an easy way of determining what actual pid file is used, except following the symlink ~/.pulse/*-runtime - that points to the right pid dir and is consulted by pulseaudio --kill. unfortunately --kill works only if it's executed by the user that started pulseaudio (no provision for root, which to me seems a brittle/silly design). a workable temporary solution might be to forget start-stop-daemon and rely solely on pulseaudio --start, --check and --kill. regards az -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (980, 'testing'), (970, 'unstable'), (500, 'squeeze-updates') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
