I'm experiencing the same symptom. I've enabled system-wide PulseAudio in
/etc/asound.conf
pcm.pulse {
type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
type pulse
}
when gdm3 starts and plays a sound through PulseAudio when the login screen
pops up, but unfortunately since PulseAudio service has not been started
yet
(PulseAudio is run as a per-session daemon which is Debian's default) ,
it fails and stuck there for serveral seconds.
So I removed the configs in /etc/asound.conf and created $HOME/.asoundrc
with
the same content. then logout and login again, gdm3 will play the sound
directly
through Alsa instead of PulseAudio and does not stuck any more.
I've also tested that by totally removing PulseAudio and using Alsa, the
symptom
will not show itself either.
