Bug 189955

Summary: kdeinit starts PulseAudio server
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Milko Krachounov <exabyte>
Component: kdeinitAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: ashl1future, chris.kcat, karl
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Milko Krachounov 2009-04-18 12:43:32 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.2 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

For some time there has been something starting PulseAudio server on my system, successfully killing my audio output. As it was quite annoying, I did `while :; do sleep 1; ps uax --forest >> psaux-log; done' while loading the system, and I found out it was kdeinit starting it. I found no option to disable this annoying behaviour. I removed the execution bit of /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio to workaround this bug.

I'm happily using PulseAudio on this machine with a remote PulseAudio server, but I see no reason that there should be a local one running, ruining my local audio.
Comment 1 Chris 2009-12-24 17:19:18 UTC 
Still happens with KDE 4.3.4 in Gentoo. I have PulseAudio configured to not auto-spawn, and KDE spawns it anyway. Very, very annoying as spawning Pulse will prevent ALSA's dmix device from working (which I have set to use by default), and if KDE can't use that device on startup, it will never attempt to use it again even after Pulse is killed and it's freed.
Comment 2 Alexey Shildyakov 2010-05-30 03:30:49 UTC 
Please check in Autoload in Settings menu. Is it be there or not?
Comment 3 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-02 22:54:28 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-11-16 02:46:24 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This is a reminder that this bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version?

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2022-12-08 00:00:32 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this issue in KDE software. As it has been a while since this issue was reported, can we please ask you to see if you can reproduce the issue with a recent software version?

If you can reproduce the issue, please change the status to "REPORTED" when replying. Thank you!
Comment 6 Bug Janitor Service 2022-12-23 05:22:40 UTC 
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
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If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is
ready to be confirmed.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2023-01-07 05:25:25 UTC 
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!