On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:46:48 -0700 Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/24/10 09:21, T o n g wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:42:52 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > > >> I normally find that it's flash-related, so look for something like > >> npviewer in the ps aux. Killing that normally resolves the problem. > > > > Yep, that's the trick for me as well. > > > > NB, it just "locks" it, not using it, so lsof won't list anything. > > > > What is 'npviewer'? Firefox's flash plugin. > I do not seem to have it on my system and I can not determine what > package it is in. > > mns@xander:~$ dpkg -S npviewer > dpkg: *npviewer* not found. <snippy> Do you have esound installed? What is in your .asoundrc file in your home dir, or your /etc/asound.conf file? Is your system 64bit, if so have you tried pulling in a newer flashplugin-nonfree from backports? or if you dont want todo that, try installing flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature