Bug#775848: Can't start pulseaudio : Home directory not accessible

[Yvan Masson]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 5.0-13

Dear maintainers,

I am using a Debian Jessie workstation with GDM and Gnome. I log in using Kerberos, and my home folder is mounted with AFS.
I have full access on my home folder :

The "fs la" command in my home folder returns :
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
  system:administrators rlidwka
  system:anyuser rl
  ymass rlidwka

In this setup, PulseAudio can't start, as I can see in syslog :
pulseaudio[4554]: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory not accessible: Permission non accordée

The same error appears if I tried to start pulseaudio in a terminal.

Maybe I could use PulseAudio as a system-wide daemon (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/),
but I do not think it is an apropriate setup in my case.

Thanks for your time and work,
YvanM