Bug#603596: not play well with pulseaudio?

[Darren Hoo]

I'm experiencing the same symptom. I've enabled system-wide PulseAudio in
/etc/asound.conf

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

when gdm3 starts and plays a sound through PulseAudio when the login screen
pops up,  but unfortunately since PulseAudio service has not  been started
yet
(PulseAudio  is run as a per-session daemon which is Debian's default) ,
it fails and stuck there for serveral seconds.

So I removed  the configs in  /etc/asound.conf  and created $HOME/.asoundrc
with
the same content. then logout and login again, gdm3 will play the sound
directly
through  Alsa instead of PulseAudio and does  not stuck any more.

I've also tested that by totally removing PulseAudio and using Alsa, the
symptom
will not show itself either.
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