That is a very good observation about not having to be on startup!! After I disabled both vmware.service and virtualbox.service, I cleaned-up: delete the '/root' and then make sure to mount it from the zfs dataset.
Then I shutdown the system yesterday evening (2020-06-25). When I started the system this morning (2020-06-26): I saw that again the zfs dataset could not be mounted because a '/root' already exists, this time with an empty ".cache" folder in it. So it seems you were right about the vwmware or virtualbox that they use pulseaudio as root. But that is not the real issue: problem is with the ".cache" folder which is created at shutdown 'after' the zfs dataset is unmounted, just like you said. I'm not sure how to investigate what happens at shutdown, but I'll try to find out. Meanwhile it's clear this not a pulseaudio issue ==> this ticket should be closed (I'm not sure if I can do that, or you or someone else needs to do it). Daniel, thank you very much for your quick and very helpful responses: I appreciate it a lot! Filesystem details after a night of shutdown: ----------------- root@minighost:~# pwd /root root@minighost:~# ls -la total 10 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 3 Jun 26 07:12 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 38 Jun 25 20:12 .. drwx------ 2 root root 2 Jun 25 20:23 .cache root@minighost:~# tree -a . └── .cache 1 directory, 0 files root@minighost:~# ----------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1884455 Title: pulseaudio creates /root/.config/pulse/ before zfs-mount.service can mount the /root dataset To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1884455/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
