After spending all day fighting nomachines windows client, freenx server, nomachines nxserver, on opensuse 10.2 with gnome. I found that turning off ESD in the gnome control center sound screen solved the error described above. I had tried commenting the hosts file for IP6 and it didn't work. Additionally I found that when logged in locally with a gnome session, when the error was encountered on the remote machine, a gnome control center window popped up.
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