Any sound at all in Fedora 20?

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:57:58 +0530
Rejy M Cyriac wrote:

> Would be interesting to know about it, when you catch it. Please do keep
> us informed.

Apparently the systemd fungus has grown over pulseaudio in
fedora 20 (I wonder when they'll change the name "linux"
to "systemd" :-). To work around this bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023820

I disabled pam_systemd.so in the /etc/pam.d/ conf
files. That allowed me to reboot my system without
having to yank the power cord, but apparently
some mysterious mechanism intertwingles systemd
user daemons with pulseaudio, so pulse doesn't
work without the systemd user daemon starting :(.

So, I can have sound, or I can have the system
properly sync the disks on shutdown without
waiting several hours for timeouts, but I can't
have both.