What's starting esound?

[John Ellson]

Jeffrey W. Stein wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 02:13 +0000, Dwaine Garden wrote:
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>>John Ellson wrote:
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>>>sean darcy wrote:
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>>>>top shows 2 instances /usr/bin/esd taking 40% each of cpu.
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>>>>/usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 17
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>>>>I think this is related to my problem where gnome won't start and 
>>>>arts dies.
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>>>>What's starting esd? And why doesn't the daemon just go into background?
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>>>>sean
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>>>I don't know what starts it, but I was seeing the same problem. My 
>>>solution was to "mv /usr/bin/esd /usr/bin/esd.broken"
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>>>It seems to be impossible to just remove esound because everything, 
>>>including that kitchen sink - nautilus, depends on it.
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>>>John
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>>I'm seeing the same thing.  When I kill esd, and then later on launch 
>>something.  It will restart esd again.  Have to go back and kill it again.
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>>Dwaine.
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>Could it be related to shockwave? 
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>I see a lot of swf (shock wave flash?) processes sitting around after I
>have been browsing with firefox. I usually also see an esd process
>hanging around at the same time.
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>They seem to be grabbing my sound, keeping MythTV from being able to
>provide audio when I try to watch TV using my PVR-250 TV card.
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>Thanks,
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>Jeff
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Its not shockwave here because I refuse to install it.

John