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Asked: 2019-12-20 21:08:27 +0800 CST

How do i stop pulseaudio?

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In this version of ubuntu, pulseaudio is a service started for the user. The different commands tried

> pulseaudio -k
> systemctl --user stop pulseaudio

> changing pulse.conf to include autospawn=no
> systemctl daemon-reload
> systemctl --user stop pulseaudio

> pkill -9 pulseaudio

It respawns all the time because systemd restarts it. Should i kill the systemd --user instance or is there something else that is tweakable?

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3 Answers

  1. You need to stop the systemd user socket.

    systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket

    systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service

    You can also use the disable, enable, reload, and restart commands as well. That should stop pulseaudio from respawning until you start it back up. Hope that helps

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  2. Disabling the service doesn't work. You have to also mask it:

    systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service
systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user disable pulseaudio.service
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.service
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  3. You need to find out what else depends on pulseaudio and kill/stop those before stopping pulseaudio.

    systemctl --user --reverse list-dependencies pulseaudio

    See also: https://askubuntu.com/a/816378/145907

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