I have seen XMMS tie up the system to where most of X would not
work, especially gnome & gnome apps. But stopping (not pausing)
what is playing corrects the problem. Also it does not seem to
keep you from going to a text console.
Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Gran) writes:
> Hello all,
> I've just experienced my first ever system crashes. They were all within
> the last several days (after an upgrade that included an upgrade of XMMS),
> and they all happened shortly after opening XMMS. There were only three
> total, and it's not consistent, but XMMS & X are the only consistent
> factors. I saw that someone else was having some problems with system
> hangs, and so I regenerated my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on the off chance that
> that was it, but it continued. Anybody else having any problems with this?
> I took a look at the bug reports, and saw some related problems, but
> nothing that seemed to be this bad - I'm getting total lockups (no keyboard
> response, even).
> I'm not sure how to troubleshoot - I've looked through the various logfiles
> in /var/, and it doesn't look like there are any obvious error messages,
> although I'm kind of a newbie at this. Any responses or suggestions would
> be appreciated. I've only been running Debian for about six months, but
> thisa is the first hang, and (although it was in a sick way nice to know
> that nothing is perfect) fairly upsetting. In the meantime, I'm not using
> XMMS, to see if my box will hang whithout it.
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
>
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