Public bug reported: We are using an up to date Ubuntu 9.04 with an cifs home directory for the users. When a user tries to login, the login hangs, until the pulseaudio daemon gets killed or the broken symlinks in ~/.pulse/ get removed. If the user has no dead symlinks in $HOME/.pulse the login does not hang.
To solve this situation we edited /usr/bin/pulse-session as follows: --- pulse-session.orig 2009-09-14 17:10:49.000000000 +0200 +++ pulse-session 2009-09-14 17:23:57.000000000 +0200 @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ if [ -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 ] && \ [ $PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START -eq 0 ] && \ [ ! -f $HOME/.pulse_a11y_nostart ]; then + /usr/bin/find -L $HOME/.pulse -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 fi This patch ensures, that broken symlinks and only those are remove from ~/.pulse dir before the pulseaudio daemon starts up. Symlinks on cifs are known for not working very well. That getent term ensures that the find term gets the home directory independent of where they are stored. Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 pulseaudio: Installiert: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 Kandidat: 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 Versions-Tabelle: *** 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20.2 0 This is not duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/330766 because, over there home dir is on ntfs. For more informations read my comment over there. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- pulseaudio hangs, prevents login, home as cifs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429533 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs