kernel-3.15 series fail to load gnome desktop

[Tom London]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Kevin Martin <ktmdms at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/19/2014 12:02 PM, Tom London wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com <mailto:
> selinux at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel <
> clydekunkel7734 at verizon.net <mailto:clydekunkel7734 at verizon.net>> wrote:
> >
> >         On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 12:45:10 -0400
> >         "Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734 at verizon.net <mailto:
> clydekunkel7734 at verizon.net>> wrote:
> >
> >         > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:32:00 -0700
> >         > Tom London <selinux at gmail.com <mailto:selinux at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >         > <snip>>
> >         > May be a red herring.  The file does not exist on  my
> machine booted
> >         > with kernel-3.14.
> >
> >         Apologies for not deleting majority of msg in my previous reply.
> >         --
> >
> >
> >     Not sure I understand: which file?  My report was about a deadlock
> triggered by pulseaudio process causing a "hung process".
> >
> >
> >
> > BZ'ed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089488
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tom London
> >
> >
> Tom,
>
> You could try *not having pulseaudio installed.  I finally gave up on
> pulseaudio and run as close to a  strict alsa setup as I can
> and don't have many of the issues that I once had.  My installed "audio"
> rpms are:
>
> pulseaudio-libs-glib2-5.0-3.fc21.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-5.0-3.fc21.x86_64
> pulseaudio-libs-devel-5.0-3.fc21.x86_64
>
> python-alsa-1.0.26-3.fc20.x86_64
> alsa-utils-1.0.27.2-5.fc21.x86_64
> alsa-lib-devel-1.0.27.2-2.fc21.x86_64
> alsa-oss-1.0.17-9.fc20.x86_64
> alsa-oss-libs-1.0.17-9.fc20.x86_64
> alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.16.rc2.fc20.x86_64
> alsa-lib-1.0.27.2-2.fc21.x86_64
> alsa-firmware-1.0.27-2.fc20.noarch
> alsa-tools-firmware-1.0.27-3.fc21.x86_64
> alsa-lib-debuginfo-1.0.27.2-2.fc21.x86_64
> alsa-tools-1.0.27-3.fc21.x86_64
>
> And I've only got the pulseaudio-libs stuff installed because of
> dependencies from other packages.
>
>
> Kevin
> --
>

The tt (and the liked lkml thread) describes a simpler solution.

The issue appears to be not with pulseaudio per se, but with the handling
of USB audio devices.

Since my only USB audio device is a Logiteck webcam (per the ticket), all I
had to do is unplug it and the system now boots to gdm/Gnome just fine.

tom
-- 
Tom London
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