Problem with 'esd' and changing users while using Gnome
Tonight I logged out from one user account and logged into another.
When Gnome came up, there was no sound. I checked the volume, read
some documentation, and eventually checked ~/.xsession-errors. I
discovered that I was getting errors with the 'esd' sound daemon.
After some Googling, I found that others (on various distributions of
Linux using Gnome) have experienced the same problem: 'esd' is
supposed to be killed when a user logs out, but if it isn't killed
then the next user trying to log in is prevented from using sound
because of permissions on a temporary 'esd' socket not being reset.
Have some of you had the same problem? Is there a cure for it, or is
it a randomly occurring thing that is a kind of annoyance?
Dave W.
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