Hi.
I'm having an issue with logging in to my GNOME session taking a very long time. By chance I was fiddling with pulseaudio and to make a long story short I found that disabling auto start of pulseaudio fixed the login issue. BUT then I have no sound. Or at least I have to start pulseaudio manually each time I log in (and I really don't want to have to do that).
Is there any fix for this issue? I have tried different versions of pulseaudio both the one on Debian Stable and Buster and besides not being able to disable the auto start on the version from Buster the problem is the same on both. As soon as I have pulseaudio running as it should the login takes over 1 minute from the time I enter my password in GDM (sometimes it even hangs completely and I have to switch to another TTY and do a reboot). But disabling pulseaudio makes the login almost instant.
I have also tried running a script and put it in ~/.profile that sleeps for 5-10 seconds and then starts pulseaudio but then it seems as the whole login process just freezes for the duration of the sleep before then taking the over 1 minute so I had no luck with that either.
Anyone with some wise advice?