Re: going mad - starting jackd starts pulseaudio

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

Also, I just ran a strace on qjackctl, and the following from its
output might be relevant, I don't know:

open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d//50-pulseaudio.conf",
open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d//pulse.conf",
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_conf_pulse.so",
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0",

then:
22514      0.000181
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/tls/x86_64/libjson-c.so.2",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000047
stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/tls/x86_64",
0x7fff457c5ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000050
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/tls/libjson-c.so.2",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000026 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/tls",
0x7fff457c5ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000032
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/x86_64/libjson-c.so.2",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000026
stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/x86_64", 0x7fff457c5ee0) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000037
open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio/libjson-c.so.2",
O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
22514      0.000025 stat("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pulseaudio",
{st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

and much more similar,


Finally, this might be relevant:
... open("/etc/pulse/client.conf",

so, cat /etc/pulse/client.conf (without comments) gives:
; default-sink =
; default-source =
; default-server =
; default-dbus-server =

; autospawn = yes
; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio
; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog

; cookie-file =

; enable-shm = yes
; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default,
usually 64 MiB

; auto-connect-localhost = no
; auto-connect-display = no


and this rather interesting looking "client.conf" line:
; autospawn = yes


Perhaps I should uncomment and set to "no"?

Surely there'd be a gui config for this somewhere... ? Surely?