two pulseaudio processes
Hi,
I am using Pulseaudio in testing.
Playing sound through the laptop built-in sound card is working fine.
But I also have a Bluetooth Headset (Phillips SHB9100), This is where the Problems occur.
root@schenker:/home/ich# ps aux | grep pulse
Debian-+ 1266 0.0 0.0 590568 1652 ? S<l Nov24 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
Debian-+ 1273 0.0 0.0 122664 0 ? S Nov24 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
ich 1456 0.1 0.1 589100 4960 ? S<l Nov24 4:13 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ich 1479 0.0 0.0 122664 0 ? S Nov24 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
root 10111 0.0 0.0 11132 880 pts/0 S+ 13:09 0:00 grep pulse
There are two pulseaudio processes, one for me, and one for "Debian-+", a user I couldnt find any notice of anywhere, neither in /etc/passwd, nor on the Internet. (Did you know you can't Google for "Debian-+"?).
This Situation has been like this for quite some time, but I could just kill the Debian-+ pulse Process, and Instantly my Headphones would work via bluetooth and show up in the Pavucontrol.
But since maybe a week or so this changed, so now a new Pulseaudio Process is started the moment I kill the old one:
root@schenker:/home/ich# ps aux | grep pulse
Debian-+ 1266 0.0 0.0 590568 1652 ? S<l Nov24 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
Debian-+ 1273 0.0 0.0 122664 0 ? S Nov24 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
ich 1456 0.1 0.1 589100 4960 ? S<l Nov24 4:13 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ich 1479 0.0 0.0 122664 0 ? S Nov24 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
root 10111 0.0 0.0 11132 880 pts/0 S+ 13:09 0:00 grep pulse
root@schenker:/home/ich# kill 1266
root@schenker:/home/ich# ps aux | grep pulse
ich 1456 0.1 0.1 589100 5956 ? S<l Nov24 4:21 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ich 1479 0.0 0.0 122664 0 ? S Nov24 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
Debian-+ 10382 0.2 0.1 358088 7456 ? S<l 13:16 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
Debian-+ 10384 0.0 0.1 122664 5072 ? S 13:16 0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
root 10395 0.0 0.0 11132 932 pts/0 S+ 13:16 0:00 grep pulse
The connection to the Headphones still gets lost shortly (beep), but then it does not connect with my pulseaudio process (at least not always, maybe sometimes).
Does anybody know who Debian-+ is, why he is starting pulseaudio and using my headsets, and if this is a bug that should be reported against pulseaudio or something else?
Thanks for your help.
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