** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: pulseaudio
+ 
+ IMPACT: When pulseaudio can not write into ~/.pulse (either because of
+ permissions or quota or some other issue), pulseaudio spins continually
+ attempting to write its state into that directory. This can hang the
+ login process.
+ 
+ DEVELOPMENT: A later upstream release included a patch to give up and
+ fail to start if pulseaudio is unable to write its state into ~/.pulse,
+ instead of spinning.
+ 
+ PATCH: Attached at
+ <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35285914/pulseaudio_0.9.14-0ubuntu20.3.debdiff>
+ (test builds are in <https://launchpad.net/~broder/+archive/ubuntu-
+ tests>). This simply backports the upstream fix to the release in
+ Jaunty.
+ 
+ INSTRUCTIONS: chmod/chown ~/.pulse to root/root 700, then attempt to
+ login.
+ 
+ REGRESSION: This patch is from upstream, and has been tested in later
+ releases of both PA and Ubuntu.
+ 
+ ============
+ Original bug description:
  
  I have my home directory on an ntfs drive. fstab line for the ntfs drive is
  UUID=DA103AC5103AA901 /windows        ntfs    
defaults,umask=022,uid=1001,gid=1001 0       1
  
  Log in as user 1001
  
- Login screen disappears, goes to ubuntu brown background, and just waits. Can 
still move mouse, but no visual progress on screen (waited several times more 
than one minute). Then run 
+ Login screen disappears, goes to ubuntu brown background, and just waits. Can 
still move mouse, but no visual progress on screen (waited several times more 
than one minute). Then run
  $ killall pulseaudio
  from tty or from ssh from another computer, and then gnome loads, the panel 
appears, and everything (except for pulseaudio) works fine
  
  Note that uninstalling pulseaudio (and everything related) lets me log in fine
  Note that having my home directory on an ext3 drive works fine (sound works 
properly from pulseaudio too).
  I also used an empty home folder for testing.
  
  This kind of setup previously worked. On ubuntu hardy and intrepid,
  pulseaudio performed fine on a home directory on an ntfs drive. Does not
  work on jaunty
  
  The .xsessions-errors give the following information about pulseaudio
  I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
  I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
  I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
  N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was 
requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
  N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the 
requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource 
limits.
  N: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the 
appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase 
the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
  E: core-util.c: Failed to create secure directory: Permission denied
  W: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock.
  Terminated
-  
- The terminated is where I killed it, and everything else in the 
.xsessions-errors file looks fine
+ 
+ The terminated is where I killed it, and everything else in the
+ .xsessions-errors file looks fine
  
  I have tried this setup on two laptops.
  Happy to give more info.
  
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:  Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
  Release:      9.04
  
  $ apt-cache policy pulseaudio
  pulseaudio:
-   Installed: 0.9.14-0ubuntu6
-   Candidate: 0.9.14-0ubuntu6
-   Version table:
-  *** 0.9.14-0ubuntu6 0
-         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 0.9.14-0ubuntu6
+   Candidate: 0.9.14-0ubuntu6
+   Version table:
+  *** 0.9.14-0ubuntu6 0
+         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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pulseaudio hangs, prevents login, home as ntfs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330766
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