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pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #570015
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 570015

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 570015] Re: High CPU usage in policykit-1

On Wed, 05 May 2010 12:28:33 -0000, Dražen Kačar <email address hidden> wrote:
> I wanted to try your suggestion, and discovered I had no pulseaudio
> running. I edited /etc/pulse/client.conf, and then:
>
> {lestat}~# pulseaudio -k
> E: main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
> {lestat}~> ps -ef | grep pulse
> dave 19336 5056 0 14:18 pts/1 00:00:00 grep pulse
>
> Then I started pulseaudio (as root) and the leakage in polkitd stopped.
> polkitd is currently sleeping in poll() and isn't doing anything.

Don't start it as root.

Thanks,

James