Pulseaudio... again. How to restart it?

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 06:48:07 UTC 2008


On 9/30/08, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:10:11PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa_ wrote:
> > Sorry, pulseaudio -D worked.
> >
> > However, I had sound cause pidgin was playing sounds each time I
> > received a message, though with an unusual delay (2 - 3 seconds after
> > the message arrival), so pulseaudio was running. Does -D perform any
> > kind of forced restart?
>
> 'pulseaudio -D' starts a new daemon process only, and does not kill a
> running instance.  You probably want something like:
>
> pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog

OK.
I'll do it the next time pulseaudio hangs up. But what if pulseaudio
-k doesn't kill it?

Thanks

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