long running sessions, restarts, etc.

[drago01]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 21:48 +0200, drago01 wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said:
>> >> > I don't expect to have to reboot just b/c of an issue in the sound server.
>> >>
>> >> Not reboot for this one but relogin.
>> >
>> > How so? PA could in theory restart itself at some point when all streams
>> > are idle, could it not?
>>
>> The apps would have to reconnect to pa.
>>
>
> Which they manage to do every time I have to killall -9 pulseaudio when
> it gets wedged.  Seems like we already have support for pulse going away
> and coming back.

well the volume-applet in F11 sure does not do that which is annoying
as hell (fixed in F12 though).