wine users - Oct 2008 - Removing pulseaudio affects startup / shutdown in Intrepid

I use Intrepid Studio, and have all updates as of today (29-Oct). 
As of a few days ago, my distro does not shut down or start cleanly. It is
because I have removed pulseaudio.
The same thing happens on shutdown when I have pulseaudio stopped with pactl
exit.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what is the workaround when using wine?
pasuspender wine application.exe ??
Thanks. 
Susan

Susan Cragin wrote:
> I use Intrepid Studio, and have all updates as of today (29-Oct). 
> As of a few days ago, my distro does not shut down or start cleanly. It is
because I have removed pulseaudio.
> The same thing happens on shutdown when I have pulseaudio stopped with
pactl exit.
> Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what is the workaround when using
wine?
> pasuspender wine application.exe ??
> Thanks. 
> Susan
You should report that to Ubuntu bugzilla as a major problem. Not having some
sound server running shouldn't prevent you from starting / shutting down.

>Susan Cragin wrote:
>> I use Intrepid Studio, and have all updates as of today (29-Oct). 
>> As of a few days ago, my distro does not shut down or start cleanly. It
is because I have removed pulseaudio.
>> The same thing happens on shutdown when I have pulseaudio stopped with
pactl exit.
>> Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what is the workaround when
using wine?
>> pasuspender wine application.exe ??
>> Thanks. 
>> Susan
>
>You should report that to Ubuntu bugzilla as a major problem. Not having
some sound server running shouldn't prevent you from starting / shutting
down.
Thank you for this and have done as you suggested. I didn't think it was a
bug--thought it was another pulseaudio "improvement" that wine would
just have to work around.
Found that several people have reported similar pulseaudio scripting problems,
including startup / shutdown / suspend and problems running applications
(including wine and Skype) that run better without pulseaudio. Also found that
pasuspender is probably broken.