Pulseaudio hanging X login with NFS mounted homedir
Ralf Aumüller
Ralf.Aumueller at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Mon May 19 07:29:38 UTC 2008
Sean E. Millichamp wrote:
> I seem to have an odd problem where having my homedir on an NFS mount
> seems to break pulseaudio.
>
> My desktop NFS mounts its homedirs from a CentOS 4.6 server. Upon
> logging in the GDM login screen disappears but it hangs before the
> desktop draws much of anything. My normal desktop is Gnome, but I've
> tried KDE and XFCE with similar results.
>
> I have found (mostly through trial and error) that if I kill -9 the PID
> of:
>
> sean 10360 0.2 0.1 176220 3792 ? Sl 16:02 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --log-target=syslog
>
> Then my login finishes with a seemingly working desktop but with an
> error from gnome-settings-daemon.
>
> I have tried emptying my home dir to a clean slate and the problem still
> occurs. I have also tried moving my home directory from the NFS mount
> to a local path and that makes the problem disappear - so it definitely
> seems NFS-related. I have also tried setting SELinux to permissive mode
> and there is no change in behavior.
>
> The only thing I see that is "odd" is this is in the process list before
> I kill the pulseaudio process:
>
> sean 10358 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:02 0:00 [xrdb] <defunct>
>
> I don't have any more idea as to what the problem might be. Has anyone
> else seen anything like this with NFS mounted home directories? Unless
> someone has a suggestion I plan on opening a bug.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean
>
>
I have a similar problem. Desktop hangs after KDE login. If I kill the pulseaudio
daemon from a console the login proceed. Normally I can fix this when i delete
the file ~/.pulse-cookie (Home-dirs are NFS mounted). But I still don't know
why the desktop hangs.
Best regards,
Ralf
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