Comment 25 for bug 226342

The reason that this freezes up all applications is because when pulseaudio is locked up, it locks up gconf, which many other applications depend upon. I've had to prevent pulseaudio from starting on my machine by removing it from the session preferences. Is there a reason that pulseaudio gets locked up by other applications. Also, has anyone else noticed that Pidgin goes wild and leaks memory at a horrendous rate once Pulseaudio is killed? Happens to me every time.