[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #529: User homedir on AFS breaks PulseAudio

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#529: User homedir on AFS breaks PulseAudio
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 Reporter:  KermitTheFragger  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  0.9.15 
Component:  daemon            |    Severity:  major  
 Keywords:                    |  
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 If the users home directory is located on AFS PulseAudio does not work.
 This is because GDBM does not work on AFS. I tested this by moving the
 GDBM files out of my ~/.pulse dir (which is on AFS) to /tmp (which is not
 on AFS) and creating symlinks to them in my ~/.pulse dir. After restarting
 pulseaudio everything worked great again.

 My best guess is that this is because AFS does not support byte range
 locking. I have not tested it with other network filesystems but I suspect
 pulse audio will not work on any network filesystem which does not support
 byte range locking (NFSv3 for example).

 I tested this on 2 different machines both with Fedora 10 (fully updated).

 For Fedora 10 there was also a nasty side effect: Not only did the audio
 not work (duh :-) ) but every application froze as soon as it tried to use
 audio. Ranging from gnome-sound-properties to the Adobe flash plugin.

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