What's starting esound?

[John Ellson]

sean darcy wrote:

> top shows 2 instances /usr/bin/esd taking 40% each of cpu.
>
> /usr/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 17
>
> I think this is related to my problem where gnome won't start and arts 
> dies.
>
> What's starting esd? And why doesn't the daemon just go into background?
>
> sean
>
>
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"

It seems to be impossible to just remove esound because everything, 
including that kitchen sink - nautilus, depends on it.

John