On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote:
ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
sudo grep -ri pulse /etc/crontab /etc/cron.* /var/spool/cron
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/frenkiel:# 0-59/1 * * * * pulse-check >> ~frenkiel/log/pulse 2>&1
find /lib/systemd /var/lib/systemd /etc/systemd -name '*.timer' \ -exec grep -i pulse /dev/null {} +
grep: /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/phpsessionclean.timer: No such file or directory
If you can think of any other places from which an automatic or timed job might run and do *ANYTHING AT ALL* involving pulseaudio, investigate it. And then tell us what it was, how you investigated it, and what you learned.
I found no other places involving pulseaudio. Anyway, it didn't disapear since several days ... thanks for tour help. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel