long running sessions, restarts, etc.

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 22:46 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> 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).

It's also fixed in F-11, seeing as it ships the same version as F-12...