systemd keeps respawning pulseaudio, and doesn't allow me to stop it
So I was trying to stop pulseaudio with pulseaudio -k
, but it kept restarting "on its own", even though I have the configuration autospawn = no
in place.
I'm pretty sure it's systemd that keeps restarting it, as instructed by /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service:
[Unit]
Description=Sound Service
[Service]
# Note that notify will only work if --daemonize=no
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
Also=pulseaudio.socket
WantedBy=default.target
But the thing is, when I try to stop this service with systemctl stop pulseaudio.service
, systemctl returns me the following:
Failed to stop pulseaudio.service: Unit pulseaudio.service not loaded.
How do I stop/disable this service?
Solution 1:
To stop user services it's necessary to use the parameter --user
:
systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.socket
systemctl --user stop pulseaudio.service
Solution 2:
systemctl --user mask pulseaudio.socket
helped me to make it not restart after killing it. changing autospawn and daemon-binary configs didn't help and disabling the service also didn't help.
source: https://winaero.com/blog/disable-pulseaudio-per-user-in-linux/
Also see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/979