Bug#504694: ESD sound daemon not killed after Gnome logout

roland65 at free.fr roland65 at free.fr
Thu Nov 6 09:40:52 UTC 2008


Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.22.3-2
System : Debian Lenny

Hi,
when a user log out from Gnome, the sound daemon esd is still running and this
prevents an other user to get the sound working in Gnome.

There is a *dirty* workaround :
Add the following at the end of the /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default script :

========= Code snippet ===========
sleep 3
/usr/bin/killall esd
==================================

This kills the esd daemon after 3 seconds, to allow the logout sound to be
played, and allows another user to start a new sound daemon with the correct
permissions.

I am also quite surprised to see there is no logout script for gnome-session. I
think it is necessary because the user may want to execute logout tasks.

Best regards,
RB







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