esd not found

[Christophe Dumez]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

I have just switched from kubuntu to ubuntu. I installed ubuntu-desktop package and Gnome is running fine. However, when I launched some apps (I noticed rhythmbox and gconf-editor), I saw this error message in the terminal:
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found

I checked and I didn't have the "esound" package installed. I installed it and now the message is gone. Is esound a dependency that should be added to ubuntu-desktop package? It didn't seem to affect the programs operation though.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Thanks for your bug report.

Can someone else, on Gutsy, confirm this?

[jcfp (jcfp)]

I've come across this very same error about esd not being found when trying to use muine (on feisty), see bug #106203. Maybe caused by gstreamer somehow?

[hualala (baowenle)]

I have this problem too.
For example:
baowl@think-ubuntu:~$ gedit
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
when start gedit in command line,it says esd not found.
gthumb, rhythmbox do the same thing.

I have esound-common 0.2.38-0ubuntu3 installed.
esound is not installed.
gedit version: 2.19.3-0ubuntu1
rhythmbox version: 0.11.1-0ubuntu3
gthumb version: 3:2.10.5-0ubuntu2
My system:Linux think-ubuntu 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

This is a problem with gnome-session:

ccooke@haematite:~$ strings /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager | grep esd
/desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd
Error getting value of /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd: %s
Failed to kill esd (pid %d)
/usr/bin/esd
Could not start esd: %s
ccooke@haematite:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-08-09 14:26 /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/gnome-session

Looks to be either obsolete code on Ubuntu, or we're missing a dependancy on the esound package.

[jcfp (jcfp)]

This bug isn't caused by gnome-session. I'm on Kubuntu, gnome-session isn't even installed (/etc/alternatives/x-session-manager points to /usr/bin/startkde here), and yet I too see this 'esd not found' error with certain applications.

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

The package causing this on Gnome *is* gnome-session. gnome-session is the only thing in /usr on my new Gutsy install that contains any reference to esd.

Here's proof:

ccooke@haematite:~$ sudo grep -r /usr/bin/esd /usr/ 2>&-
Binary file /usr/bin/x-session-manager matches
Binary file /usr/bin/gnome-session matches
Binary file /usr/X11R6/bin/x-session-manager matches
Binary file /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session matches
ccooke@haematite:~$

Evidently, there's a similar problem on KDE - probably the same legacy code or missing dependancy. Could you (or anyone else with a Kubuntu Gutsy install) please run this command:

sudo grep -r /usr/bin/esd /usr/ 2>&-

and post the output here?

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

no output on a kubuntu gutsy install.

nice ram usage while running that command though...

http://wedontsleep.org/~sarah/snapshot9.png

(/usr is 2.1gb here)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Neil Wilson (neil-aldur)]

I don't believe this is a duplicate of the libgnome bug. The fix there doesn't solve this problem. it still happens even with the new libgnome.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug are similar enough, closing this one as duplicate

[obobu84 (lucaborzani)]

on ubuntu gutsy i find in xsession-errors:

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found

** (x-session-manager:29940): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
Initializing gnome-mount extension

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_unref: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_monitor_remove: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_unref: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_monitor_remove: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_unref: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_monitor_remove: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_unref: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_monitor_remove: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: instance of invalid non-instantiatable type `(null)'

(nautilus:29997): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handlers_disconnect_matched: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

** (nautilus:29997): CRITICAL **: nautilus_file_unref: assertion `NAUTILUS_IS_FILE (file)' failed

--- Hash table keys for warning below:
--> file:///home/luca

(nautilus:29997): Eel-WARNING **: "nautilus-directory.c: directories" hash table still has 1 element at quit time (keys above)

[Rene Paap (arpi)]

I just upgraded to gutsy from feisty yesterday, and noticed the same error (/usr/bin/esd not found) in a number of applications that you start from terminal.
After apt-get install esound it doesn't do that anymore! I don't know if ubuntu-desktop should depend on this though...

[hasan (hassanidin)]

As of Sep 29th on a fully updated system, I am still experiencing this bug.

[antistress (antistress)]

me too : when launching gThumb from the terminal i get /bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found
(gThumb works anyway)