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policykit-1 package

  1. Bug #572813
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 572813

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In , flan_suse (flansuse) wrote :

For the KDE systems, none of them have pulseaudio enabled, and none of them have the polkitd memory leak problem.

The GNOME system has pulseaudio enabled and installed, and it suffers from this memory leak.

Looks like pulseaudio may be the culprit (again...) for this issue.

But then here's what is odd. On my Xfce system, pulseaudio is disabled, and it's not even installed. The only pulse packages I have are:

libpulse0-32bit-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64
libpulse-mainloop-glib0-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64
libpulse0-0.9.21-10.1.1.x86_64

I just have to say it. I, and people I've installed Linux for, have had way too many problems with pulseaudio. This is why I'm starting to ditch GNOME in favor of KDE. At least with KDE, you can have pulseaudio completely disabled, but not lose your shortcut keys, your volume controls, or your audio settings. Sorry to hear about your issue, Hans-Robert.

But back to the bug. Hope there's a way to plug the memory leak without resorting to disabling pulseaudio or removing it from a GNOME setup.