During the freeze, could you try opening pavucontrol (PulseAudio Volume Control) or paman (PulseAudio Manager) and seeing if they work? The new GNOME volume control applet in Karmic which appears when you right click on the sound icon and click sound preferences would also do fine.
If they hang as well during those times, then PulseAudio is pretty much at fault, so please reassign this bug to that package in that case. -- [karmic] Banshee freeze after some song playback https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410763 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs