gnome-panel hang

[Sertaç Ö. Yıldız]

[19.Nis.07 12:58 -0400] Andy Baumhauer:
> During the updates on 4/18/07, when I logged back into Gnome, the 
> gnome-panel hangs.  The "Updates" balloon appears at the top far left, 
> instead of on the updater icon on the top right.  I had added hwsensors on 
> the top toolbar, and these weren't appearing (using acpi and lmsensors).  
> The toolbar was completely unresponsive.  Icons on the desktop would open, 
> but many programs would hang on start (gnome-terminal) and a blank popup 
> would appear.

Almost the same happens here, too. And occasionally it’s more like 
a session hang. Sometimes right clicking on desktop responds, sometimes 
not.

> I was unable to confirm which applet was hanging the panel.  I ended 
> up fixing the problem my removing .gnome, .gnome2, and .gconf 
> (probably overkill).

I suspect this is about system sounds. Killing esd ‘unhangs’ gnome here.  
Maybe by removing .gconf you just unset /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd?

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