Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with this. I am running a Fedora 11 desktop with home directories mounted from CIFS file systems off a Samba share. I noticed Gnome complaining that it is unable to start the gnome-settings-daemon when I try to open the appearance preferences. It sometimes hangs the system and I have to reboot or reset it. I looked in /var/log/messages and I noticed a few messages like this, which seemed concomitant to me opening up the Gnome prefs: Nov 10 15:14:02 mgd-lin-11-23 pulseaudio[2414]: core-util.c: Failed to symlink /home/cifsuser/.pulse/753d3047c74d8cf35719694b4af98160:runtime to /tmp/pulse-Js7neClsndF1: Permission denied Nov 10 15:08:11 mgd-lin-11-23 pulseaudio[2008]: lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. So I looked to see why Pulseaudio was not creating these symlinks, and after some experimentation found that I was not able to create any simlinks of my own from my home directory to something in /tmp. It must be something to do with CIFS, because it works OK when symlinking from an NFS-mounted directory. We are pretty committed to using CIFS for home dirs. I seem to be in a bit of a tight spot here. I can remove pulseaudio altogether, and things work fine, but I think our users will want sound so it's not really an option to do it that way. Is there any way of running pulse audio without it trying to create symlinks into /tmp ? Thanks, Mark
