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).
Duplicate of Bug #238680? Try the following... edit /etc/esd.conf change default_options= to default_options=-nobeeps -unix -as 2
Yup, fixes the problem, and it looks like a duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238680 ***