I found this article:
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/172-Wednesday-Why-...
but it appears that it no longer applies.
$ ps -ef | grep pulse
steve 30603 1 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio
--start --log-target=syslog
so either pulseaudio was started by init or whatever started it has
since died. Anyway it is not started by gnome-session.
$ ps -ef | grep gnome-session
steve 30486 17079 0 10:07 ? 00:00:00 gnome-session
I can't find any reference to pulseaudio in any init file
# grep pulse /etc/*init*
#
So where does it get started?
Steve