Bug 243546

Summary: Enabling "software sound mixing" causes Gnome to freeze when logging in
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Pifer <zero456>
Component: gnome-audioAssignee: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
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Description Thomas Pifer 2007-06-09 16:45:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
Enabling "software sound mixing (ESD)" in sound preferences causes further
log-ins to freeze/halt Gnome from logging in.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
About 75% of the time: Occasionally, once this happens, the next log-in will
succeed.   

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Head to System > Prefrences > Hardware > Sound
2. Go the Sound tab, and check "Enable software sound mixing (ESD)" and "Play
system sounds"
3. Log-out, then back in.
  
Actual results:
You should either end up with a desktop with only the desktop background or with
empty panels (You cannot right-click them to add new ones), both cases have no
desktop icons either.  You need to kill the X server (Ctrl + alt + Backspace) in
order to log-out.


Expected results:
Gnome starts-up as normal.

Additional info:
This occurs on both fresh, and upgraded installs of Fedora 7, both with and
without updates installed (Does not happen in FC6).
Comment 1 John Conroy 2007-06-10 22:43:04 UTC 
Duplicate of Bug #238680?  Try the following...

edit /etc/esd.conf
change
default_options=
to
default_options=-nobeeps -unix -as 2
Comment 2 Thomas Pifer 2007-06-11 02:42:38 UTC 
Yup, fixes the problem, and it looks like a duplicate.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-06-11 09:15:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238680 ***