gnome-session updated and lost sound on Sarge

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

I upgraded gnome-session to  2.10.0-5 last night on my Sarge, 2.6.11, on
a PIV. After that, I logged out of Gnome and couldn't login back. The
login process 'hanged' on the gray screen that comes just, before the
splash screen appears.

I then deleted everything that belonged to me in /tmp (gconfd* alsa*
.esd* orbit-* etc.) and relogged and was successful. But now sounds do
not work. In my .xsession-erros, I get these messages:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l
":0" "red"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/bijli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8568
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
Exiting...
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
....and so on.


What do I need to do to correct this? I tried deleting
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state and restarting alsa. No luck. Btw, when I
login to a KDE session, sound works okay.

All help is appreciated,
->HS

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