[arch-general] pulse audio auto stop

[Tom Gundersen]

2011/7/28 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> 2011/7/28 Juan Diego Tascón <juantascon at gmail.com>:
>>> Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is
>>> shut down? why cruel world? why?
>>
>> man pulse-daemon.conf:
>>
>> "exit-idle-time=  Terminate the daemon after the last client quit and
>> this time in seconds passed. Use a negative value to disable this
>> feature. Defaults to  20."
>
> Ok, I'm afraid this didn't do the trick. I tried with a negative
> value(-1) and with a big value (100) and it didn't work.
>
> This is what's going on: I start a normal tty login in lets say tty2
> then I run mplayer to reproduce an mp3 with pulse output which
> automatically starts the pulseaudio daemon. Then, on tty1 I start
> xinit (kde). When I close the xinit process (Ctrl+C on tty1) the pulse
> daemon also dies and my mplayer stops playing :(

Can you check your system logs for messages from pulseaudio, it should
log the reason it shuts down.

-t