I used the advice from: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625235#30
and it seems to have done the trick! But it seems that some recent update set this RUN=yes in /etc/default/speech-dispatcher Cheers, Grzegorz 2012/3/4 Grześ Andruszkiewicz <gandr...@gmail.com>: > Yes, they seem to run as two different users as you suggested: > ga@grzes:~$ ps -lA | grep pulse > 1 S 115 2492 1 0 80 0 - 25937 ? ? 00:00:02 pulseaudio > 1 S 1000 2636 1 0 69 -11 - 24618 - ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio > > user 115 seems to be speech-dispatcher (what is this???) and 1000 is my > account. > > after killing these two, the new process runs as me: > grzes:/home/ga# killall pulseaudio > grzes:/home/ga# ps -lA | grep pulse > 1 S 1000 3145 1 0 69 -11 - 26414 - ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio > > (and the sound works). So what is this speech-dispatcher? Why is it > running a dogdy instance of pulseaudio? > > Grzegorz > > On 4 March 2012 15:25, dE . <de.tec...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 03/04/12 13:17, Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: >>> >>> I found a workaround: >>> grzes:/home/ga# killall pulseaudio >>> grzes:/home/ga# ps -A | grep pulse >>> 5137 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio >>> >>> then I have only one pulseaudio and everything works fine! Why did it >>> end up in this wrong state in the first place? >> >> >> What user is pulseaudio running as? It may be that there's a sytem wide >> instance of pulse running, and it also starts as a user. >> >> Remove pulseaudio from rc startup and see. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send mail to 662049-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CACzszyGaC8M23Rzdr0+wgzXp1ev==v8bdxhnx6ccmcplagh...@mail.gmail.com