Neil Bird writes:
I'm concerned, though, that that's just masking the real
issue.
Essentially, the issue is that, with gdm audio enabled, any normal user's
app. will hang when trying to generate sound. This made my login nearly
impossible as I have a couple of applets that 'tone' when logging in, and
this seemed (via the gnome panel?) to near-enough hang my entire session.
Is there something in particular I should be looking at, maybe
permissions-wise?
The current pulseaudio package has a bug. There's a pending update.
The bug may or may not be your bug, so you'll have to wait until an update
is out, before checking again.