Bug#627310: invoke-rc.d pulseaudio status and invokce-rc.d pulseaudio restart disagree

[sam penny]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-4
Severity: normal

I'm having a mare of a time getting pulseaudio to work, but the issue in
question here is illustrated by the following:

sammy at sammy-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d pulseaudio status
pulseaudio is running.
sammy at sammy-desktop:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d pulseaudio stop
Stopping PulseAudio DaemonNo process in pidfile '/var/run/pulse/pid' found
running; none killed.
... pulseaudio is not running.
sammy at sammy-desktop:~$


Is it running or not? There doesn't seem to be a directory at /var/run/pulse
at all, so possibly something wasn't created at install time?

I think pulseaudio is actually running, as it seems to have my sound devices
open:

sammy at sammy-desktop:~$ fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  sammy      3462 F.... pulseaudio
                     sammy      7926 F.... gnome-volume-co
                     sammy     12503 F.... mixer_applet2
/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p:   sammy      3462 F...m pulseaudio
sammy at sammy-desktop:~$


HTH
Cheers & God bless
    Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                    0.4.4-1    framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-3   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                         2.13-4     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.20-1   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.4.8-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3                      1.8.3-9    GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.7-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library 
ii  libltdl7                      2.4-2      A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0                     0.9.21-4   PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.7-3    Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.0-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.24-1   Library for reading/writing audio
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-1  The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0                      167-3      libudev shared library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.3-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.0-1  X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-27     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          167-3      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.28-3  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.23-2   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.21-4   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.21-4   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.9-1    PulseAudio Volume Control 
pn  pavumeter                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.21-4   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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