does not start.

Bug #21987 reported by Robert McMeekin
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #21915: esound causes desktop session to hang. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

I am running completely updated 5.04. When I log in to anything except failsafe
terminal, the background gets set to the default color (not the background
image) and the computer just sits there indefinitely and does not lock up or
timeout or show an error message or anything. This is from a clean install.
Previous installs have worked fine, so I am a bit miffed. I am thinking it must
be the last Xorg updates, but I am not savvy enough to know the commands to
update my system to before those X updates. The only customizations I have done
on this system are changing the DefaultDepth to 16 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fix
the fonts display on my laptop (ThinkPad 600 45-U), and built newer madwifi
drivers to get my wireless working, and disabled acpi to get my sound working (I
also had to add cs4232 to the list of modules that gets probed). I have no idea
how any of this stuff might be related. I haven't used linux in years, sorry
for being so helpless. I used to use an LFS based distribution, but I just
don't have the computing power for that anymore. Please help. Thanks.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Is your "lo" interface correctly configured? What does
"ping 127.0.0.1" do?

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time with this bug for me, it really means a lot. I am
fairly sure lo is configured properly (I didn't do anything to configure it
though). Here is what happens when I ping localhost:

robert@elephant:~$ ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.203 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.081 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.111 ms

--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.081/0.123/0.203/0.048 ms
robert@elephant:~$

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Do you notice anything funny going on with esd? Could you try to kill esd?
(might be related to #15700)

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Thank you! That was it, killing esd fixed it. Now I am in GNOME again! Hurray!
 Perhaps it has something to do with the sound chip, because my laptop has the
same one he mentions in bug 21915 cs46xx. I am using the cs4232 module though.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Marking as duplicate of #15700, feel free to reopen if you disagree

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21915.

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