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I do not want pulseaudio to start automatically, as I need jack to start first so that it can capture alsa. For some reason, pulseaudio keeps respawning:

$ ps aux | grep pulseaudio
gdm        883  0.0  0.1 1156168 11452 ?       S<l  23:06   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ben       1334  0.0  0.1 1442008 13352 ?       S<l  23:06   0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

What I've tried:

I've set respawn = no in /etc/pulse/client.conf (nothing in ~/.config/pulse either)

I've disabled pulseaudio service and socket

systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.service
systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.socket
sudo systemctl disable pulseaudio

Also why is gdm starting its own pulseaudio instance? If I try to kill that it respawns also. I looked in gdm's homedir and there is no pulse config. I also tried masking pulseaudio socket/service for my user and gdm. The thing keeps respawning and I have no idea why.

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  • Another strange thing is, whenever I kill pulse, my X session seems to freeze entirely until pulse respawns. I can move my mouse, but I can't click anything or alt+tab.
    – Ben Davis
    Jun 13, 2019 at 4:21
  • Please add this in the question itself. And did you try using kill command?
    – Tintin
    Jun 13, 2019 at 4:36
  • I've set respawn = no in /etc/pulse/client.conf but it should be autospawn = no.
    – mook765
    Jun 13, 2019 at 4:59

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I realized I wasn't seeing the ; prepending each line in /etc/pulseaudio/client.conf, which was commenting out the line. Uncommenting by removing ; before autospawn = no fixed it.

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