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

[Yvan Masson]

Le mardi 20 janvier 2015 à 14:35 -0300, Felipe Sateler a écrit :
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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.
> 
Thanks for you fast answer,

Indeed it was not the case: Unix permissions were all wrong on my home directory.
Now I corrected everything, PulseAudio starts: you can close this bug.

The strange thing is that there were no problems with other softwares, only PulseAudio was complaining.

Anyway, thanks again,
Yvan Masson