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

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Yvan Masson <yvan.masson at univ-savoie.fr> wrote:
> 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

Is your home directory owned by your user? Pulseaudio checks that and
returns EACCESS in that case. You can check using the stat command.



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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler