Pulseaudio hanging X login with NFS mounted homedir

[max]

Ralf Aumüller wrote:
> 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
> 
I wonder if might not have something to do with the firewall. Inbound 
connections and all that...
Anyone try turning off the firewall or opening additional ports?


Max

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