On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Gilles Filippini wrote:
Hi,
Timidity has some known problems working with pulseaudio [0], and one of
the recommanded workarounds [1] is to launch it from the user session
instead of running it as a system service. The problem is that - even if
timidity wasn't launched as a daemon - it doesn't termminate itself at
the end of the user session. Instead it daemonizes itself and stands
running. This simply shouldn't happen when launched without the 'D'
flag.
thanks,
_g.
[0] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563252>
[1] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timidity/+bug/210472/comments/16>
Interesting, and thank you for pointing me to that Ubuntu bug.
There's some suspicious behavior regarding SIGHUP in the ALSA module,
which runs independent of the -D flag:
/* reset all when SIGHUP is received */
static RETSIGTYPE sig_reset(int sig)
{
if (alsactx.active) {
stop_sequencer(&alsactx);
server_reset();
}
signal(SIGHUP, sig_reset);
}
and later
signal(SIGHUP, sig_reset);
I'm not sure what the intention is there, but it sounds plausible this
should be daemon-only behavior. I'll try to take a closer look at it soon.
There's also a protocol of some sort to detect when a user session is
exiting (I believe using X or D-Bus); we should probably implement that if
X or D-Bus is available, which would make the use case you describe
smoother.
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