What's starting esound?

[Dwaine Garden]

John Ellson wrote:

> sean darcy wrote:
>
>> top shows 2 instances /usr/bin/esd taking 40% each of cpu.
>>
>> /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 17
>>
>> I think this is related to my problem where gnome won't start and 
>> arts dies.
>>
>> What's starting esd? And why doesn't the daemon just go into background?
>>
>> sean
>>
>>
> I don't know what starts it, but I was seeing the same problem. My 
> solution was to "mv /usr/bin/esd /usr/bin/esd.broken"
>
> It seems to be impossible to just remove esound because everything, 
> including that kitchen sink - nautilus, depends on it.
>
> John
>
I'm seeing the same thing.  When I kill esd, and then later on launch 
something.  It will restart esd again.  Have to go back and kill it again.

Dwaine.