'Twas brillig, and Raymond Yau at 26/07/10 04:22 did gyre and gimble:
But I have another question ,
did update manager stop pulseaudio server when the update manager want to update pulseaudio package ?
Actually I don't notice yum -y update stop the PA server if it updated pulseaudio package (install new pulseaudio and remove old pulseaudio package) and restart PA server on Fedora 10
PA is *not* restarted when a new version is installed and I suspect this does not happen on Fedora either (but I could be wrong).
The reason is that PA is a per-user daemon, not a system service. If three users were logged in, then each of their PA servers would need to be killed and restarted but due to console-kit, only the active user would get access to the devices which could cause enumeration issues etc.
It could maybe be handled better, but doing so would be rather complex.
Col