Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:36:40 -0700, Tom London wrote:

> I've found pulse/sound to be pretty good, except for an issue with how
> the pulseaudio daemon starts:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425763
> 
> It seems that sometimes on reboot, pulse gets confused and thinks
> there already is a copy of the daemon running, and so doesn't start
> one.

As I've added to one of the tickets about that, here it was
reproducible. At boot-time, the /tmp/pulse-$USER/pid file still existed
and contained the pid number from before the shutdown, but a different
process now got that pid.

There are several older and newer duplicates of that ticket. They have
been closed in a chaotic way. One still open is:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/405351