Bug 497214

Summary: pulseaudio-module-x11 shouldn't autostart pulseaudio daemon if PULSE_SERVER is set
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Component: pulseaudioAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Warren Togami 2009-04-22 19:56:29 UTC 
pulseaudio-0.9.15-10.fc11

pulseaudio-module-x11 contains /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop which autostarts /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 during a desktop login.

Remote desktop sessions might set PULSE_SERVER to direct the desktop sound to another host, like:
PULSE_SERVER=tcp:172.31.100.102:4713

In this case, the pulseaudio daemon launched by the user desktop is not actually used.  This can actually cause problems for multi-user systems because these unused pulseaudio and /usr/libexec/pulse/gconf-helper processes often fail to die after logout.  Hundreds of them pile up over time bogging down system resources.

--- /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11.orig	2009-04-22 15:42:00.281756540 -0400
+++ /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11	2009-04-22 15:45:04.465837091 -0400
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 
 set -e
 
+# Exit without running pulseaudio daemon if this is a remote desktop session
+[ -n "$PULSE_SERVER" ] && exit 0
+
 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start "$@"
 
 if [ x"$DISPLAY" != x ] ; then

This patch seems to DTRT, preventing the unused pulseaudio daemon from launching, and no more leftover processes after user logout.
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2009-04-22 20:17:14 UTC 
Fixed upstream. Feel free to patch the Fedora packages.
Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-04-23 00:05:58 UTC 
Seems you patched the Fedora packages already, closing.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-05 16:41:09 UTC 
pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-06 23:29:09 UTC 
pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.