I'm having this same issue with lab computers I'm administering. In
both cases (so far), the commonalities are:
- the systems run 9.04
- the home directory for the user is mounted via CIFS (samba) from a fileserver
Notably, there are around 5 or so 9.04 systems in the lab -- which do
not mount t
Just as a quick addition, both affected machines are running GNOME, and
prior to discovering the .pulse/ broken symlink, my previous workaround
was to boot the machines in GNOME's fail-safe mode, which seemed to
work. But now, a regular "full" login works with the new workaround.
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Nothing appe
