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alsa-plugins package

  1. Bug #1296425
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1296425

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Søren Holm (sgh) wrote :

ok - "chmod -x /usr/bin/aplay" solves it. Now that aplay does not run pulseaudio no additional instances is run.

Now the question is why aplay runs pulseaudio.

Lokking the the alsa-repositories I found the following
* alsa-utils - nothing interesting.
* alsa-lib - nothing interesting.
* alsa-plugins - lots of pulseaudio related stuff.

It also turns out that leaving aplay executable and uninstalling libasound2-plugins gives a working system with no duplicate pulseaudio processes.