[Changed subject because this goes into the specific problem of my general question.]
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
I guess you can still open this bug. We'll reassign we find the guilty package, and close it if it's just a config problem or something like that.
Well, sure you could reassign a bug but I would feel guilty if I would not provide any helpfull information to do this reasonably.
I indeed can't reproduce this,
This is what I expected - that's why I hesitated to load the debug burden without really good chances on you.
Does this still occurrs if you don't run Xfce from gdm but login in console and startxfce4?
Well, no, but this reduces the problem probably. If I start xmms from a xfce4 via startxfce4 I get an error screen: Couldn't open audio: (window title) Please check that: Your soundcard is configured properly You have the correct output plugin selected No other program is blocking the soundcard This enhances my suspicion about a problem with the sound system. If you ask me - no sound at all is better than no keyboard at all. ;-) I do not really cary why xmms had this problem (I just changed to audacious), but if I start audacious in a startxfce4 session I get the same problem. Lessions learned: * The Problem occures in whatever way I start Thanks to the hint of Christian I verified that /var/log/dpkg.log* did not show any xfce4 string after 2007-08-20 07:45:57 upgrade xfce4-terminal 0.2.6-2 0.2.6-3 So if the problem would be caused by xfce4 itself I would have noticed it definitely earlier. OK, thunar might be involved - I have no idea whether this does have an influence on the sound 2007-10-24 07:54:28 upgrade libthunar-vfs-1-2 0.8.0-5 0.8.0-6 2007-10-24 07:54:31 upgrade thunar 0.8.0-5 0.8.0-6 2007-10-24 07:54:31 upgrade thunar-data 0.8.0-5 0.8.0-6 which would be exactly the time in question when the problem occured the first time. To verify this idea I deinstalled thunar (dpkg --remove --force-depends thunar) and xmms showed the same message as above, but audacious startet playing - and had frozen my keyboard and mouse events. So I doubt that thunar is responsible. But now it becomes really funny: If I do Xephyr -ac :2 export DISPLAY=:2 startxfce4 I can observe the problem in a closed environment. If I stick the mouse to the Xephyr window it behaves in the same curde way (not able to destroy windows, open menus etc. but I can move the cursor) and there is no response to keyboard events. If I release the mouse (ctrl+shift) I can proceed to normal operation and finally kill the Xephyr window. I'm not perfectly comfortable with sending a bug against xfce4 and would like to ask for further ideas what information might be helpful to effectively track down the problem. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]