Cannot stop pulseaudio

[Nico Orrù]

I need to kill pulseaudio as I'm using Jackd instead. I don't want to delete it as I may need it back again.

So far the only workaround I found was to delete /usr/bin/pulseaudio (or move it out of the way).

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ pulseaudio -k
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 29938 8557 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29940 29938 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29941 29940 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30111 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 29938 8557 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29940 29938 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29941 29940 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30230 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 29938 8557 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29940 29938 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 29941 29940 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30250 28914 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30252 28942 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30297 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 29941 1 1 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30469 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 29941 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30486 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ pulseaudio -k
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 30489 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 30493 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 30506 29396 0 11:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ubuntu-bug pulseaudio

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ sudo service pulseaudio stop
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 30493 1 0 11:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ kill 30493
norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 32318 1 1 11:32 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ kill -9 32318

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 32361 8557 0 11:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 32363 32361 0 11:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 32364 32363 1 11:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

norru@GBWWSRUNUBWS02:~$ ps -ef | grep pulse
norru 32364 1 1 11:34 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
norru 32381 29396 0 11:34 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulse

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: pulseaudio 1:9.0-2ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-34.36-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: norru 30493 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: norru 30493 F.... pulseaudio
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Mon Feb 6 11:28:49 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-10 (606 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-31 (97 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/15/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4502
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P9X79
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr4502:bd10/15/2013:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnP9X79:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[Nico Orrù (nigu-orru)]

Seems to be respawned by

norru 8557 1 0 Jan23 ? 00:00:15 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-sound/indicator-sound-service

[Nico Orrù (nigu-orru)]

It is probably a bug of indicator-sound?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Do you have pulseaudio-module-jack installed? I believe that includes a module that will talk to jack and have pulse move out of the way, and reroute itself through jack.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 16.10 (yakkety) reached end-of-life on July 20, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for pulseaudio (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]