diff -urN esound-0.2.36/esd_config.c esound-0.2.37/esd_config.c
--- esound-0.2.37/esd_config.c	2007-01-02 01:56:06 +0200
+++ esound-0.2.36/esd_config.c	2007-05-03 02:50:41 +0300
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
-int esd_no_spawn=0; /* If we can't even find the system config file,
+int esd_no_spawn=1; /* If we can't even find the system config file,
 		       things are screwed up - don't try to make things
 		       worse. */
 int esd_spawn_wait_ms=100; /* Time to wait trying to connect to an