PA server sometimes gets run more than once

[xpaulbettsx]

The PulseAudio server sometimes gets run more than once, causing the entire sound system to become very confused; I can't find a specific way to repro this, but it usually happens after a hibernate, probably because it is spawned by ESD. The PulseAudio server should act similar to Firefox - one process per user and trying to execute it again does nothing.

[xpaulbettsx]

To clarify; it DoS's itself because the instances run after the first broken instance cannot grab exclusive access. My title isn't very clear - I'll update it.

[lennart]

Humm. I wonder how this can happen. PulseAudio uses a lock file to detect whether it is run twice by the same user and refuses a second instance.

What distro are you using?

[lennart]

Closing because of lack of response.