Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:43:08 +0200 Markus Schönhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Allan Gottlieb schrieb: >> >>> At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:57 +0200 Markus Schönhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> Try moving ~/.gconfd out of the way. It helped in my case. >>> Thanks. I tried it, but alas no effect. Same status (.gconfd had >>> only the saved-state file). >> Yep, same for me. The difference is, for me, getting rid of it helped.
Wrong. It seemed to help, but it did so only temporarily. >> If you're still interested in finding out what causes your problems, I'd >> start by moving ~/.gconf out of the way. You'll lose most of your >> settings but if that helps you could move the items from the backup to >> the automatically created new ~/.gconf one by one and eventually spot >> the bad one. >> And there's also ~/.gnome2 that could be screwed up. > > I am doing a similar thing in a different way. Instead of removing > configuration files, I created a new user testgot with the same uid as > gottlieb. I then copy config files from gottlieb to testgot, > expecting breaking to eventually occur. So far testgot works much > better than gottlieb even though it has copies of gottlieb's .gconfd, > .gnome, .gnome_private, .gnome2, and .gnome2_private. > I will continue to move more config files and report here when I find > the culprit. In the meantime I've noticed one thing: under the first user account I created on the machine, there are no problems at all. With other accounts, I experience random lockups (main menu doesn't respond anymore, desktop icons disappear, nautilus hangs etc.). The difference seems to be that for all accounts except the first, gnome-session starts an instance of esd. I did follow the Gnome 2.18 upgrade guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.18-upgrade.xml which states that one should start the esound service. This seems to work for the first account, i. e. no esd is spawned upon login but sound works nevertheless. For the other accounts, an instance of esd is started and if I experience a lockup, killing this esd process resolves the issue. I have yet to find out what the difference is between the accounts. It doesn't seem to be a difference in the settings, since for both "enable software sound mixing (ESD)" is checked in Preferences/Sound/Sounds. I even created a completely fresh home directory - to no avail. And it doesn't seem to be a problem with the user's rights either - I added one of the problematic accounts to all groups (even wheel - it was already in audio) the account not showing any problems is in, but I still experienced lockups. I'll try to investigate that further, but if someone has an idea why the above happens, I'd appreciate if they told me. Regards mks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
