Re: Gnome UI stops responding

[Santiago de Ledesma <santiago.de.ledesma@vanderbilt.edu>]

Thanks for the advice!

Apparently the esd daemon was to blame (I usually have the sound muted,
so I didn't even think of it when it happened). I disabled it for now
and everything works just fine.

Again, Thank you very much.


On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 00:16, Mark Roach wrote:

> Hmm, my first guess would be that some process that all those programs
> depends on is failing, but stays running, preventing other copies of
> itself from starting up. Try doing a ps aux | grep <username> (as root)
> after you get a hang like this to see what processes, if any, are still
> running. That might give you an idea.
> 
> -Mark
>