Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said:
> I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go
> away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I access
> the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion that
> it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it doesn't
> solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes back
> into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to
> reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes.
>
> Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work and
> can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and
> play box where I hope to solve this.

Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than
non-use of the offending application. What is it?

mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418

I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel dies
in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours
and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an
older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in
WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv)

So, any thoughts now?

Karl