Bug#637766: pulseaudio: Gdm3 greeter and various applications hang due to custom configuration of Alsa and Pulse

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Panayiotis,

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:48:10AM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 0.9.21-3+squeeze1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Following instructions widely available on the Internet, I set-up pulse audio
> to be the default ALSA device by creating the following /etc/asound.conf file:
> 
> pcm.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
> 
> ctl.pulse {
>     type pulse
> }
> 
> pcm.!default {
>     type pulse
> }
> 
> ctl.!default {
>     type pulse
> }
> 
> On subsequent reboots gdm3 hanged (in my opinion, at the point it was about to
> play the welcome beep).
> 
> After bypassing the problem -by deleting the gdm3 home dir- I found that sound
> related applications, such as rhythmbox and gnome-volume-control, also hanged
> when asked to interact with the soundcard.
> 
> The problems ceased, as soon as I deleted the above mentioned file.
> 

You reported this problem a long time ago, and it might have been fixed
since then. In fact,the above configuration is now the default.

Can you still reproduce this issue? If so, please reply so we may debug
this, otherwise I'd like to close this bug.

Thanks

-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler