Bug#622989: pulseaudio: autospawn is evil
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Sat Apr 16 12:24:06 UTC 2011
Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.22-1
Severity: important
Now that we have dropped Esound, we run again into the same bugs we had
fixed with it.
Autospawn is bad. Very bad.
Let’s say PulseAudio is installed on the system, but the user explicitly
disabled it, preventing its startup with the session. Now he starts an
application that can use PA, and it will just be autospawned, instead of
seeing the application fall back to ALSA.
This behavior is completely broken.
The fix is simple: change the default client.conf to set autospawn=no.
Thanks.
--
.''`. Josselin Mouette
: :' :
`. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone,
`- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
More information about the pkg-pulseaudio-devel
mailing list