'Twas brillig, and Reindl Harald at 03/06/12 20:08 did gyre and gimble: > > > Am 03.06.2012 20:22, schrieb Robert Buhren: >> i'm using archlinux with gnome3.4. Pulseaudio 2.0, systemd 184, and Linux >> 3.4. >> Pulseaudio has no unitfile, as it is started by gnome itself. > > however > > the question remains: why is pulseaudio still running after logout
That's the intended behaviour. PulseAudio will spawn itself automatically when needed and shut itself down when it's not needed any more, after a suitable timeout (defaults to 20). As startup is quite intensive (it requires a lot of probing of the hardware to see what modes it uses) we take two general precautions to avoid excessive restarts: 1) We implement an "exit-idle-time". Simply set this to 0 if you want PA to exit by itself immediately after it becomes unused (man pulse-daemon.conf) 2) When logging into an X11 session, we load a special X11 module that ensures that PA is not exited until the X11 session is finished. So in this setup you have two main options to get the results you want. The first is to simply set the exit-idle-time=0 in daemon.conf. This should make PA behave generally a bit more gracefully, but does nothing to help any other apps that may behave in a similar way. The second option (and IMO the better one) is to configure pam_systemd to kill the processes of the user session when it's done. This should be a matter of setting the kill-session-processes= (and optionally the kill-only-users=) options in your pam configuration. See man pam_systemd. HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
