gnome won't start and arts dies
sean darcy
seandarcy at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 20 23:59:22 UTC 2005
Using current rawhide on x86_64.
X starts OK. But gnome just doesn't start. It hangs. The console shows:
.................
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Agent pid 4223
SESSION_MANAGER=local/amd64-3000:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4202
esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
Exiting...
I rebooted. Same thing. I deleted /tmp/.esd/socket. Same thing!
So I switchdesk to kde.
It started.
But came up with an arts error box:
Sound server fatal error:
AudioSubSystem::handleIO: write failed
len = -1, can_write = 4096, errno = 22 (Invalid argument)
This might be a sound hardware/driver specific problem (see aRts FAQ)
I rebuilt arts. Same error.
I have a VIA 8237 with ALC850. Worked just fine till now.
Nothing in /var/log/messages.
sean
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