Well, the desktop no longer halts during startup ... but that appears to be because the startup "Log in" system sound is not played.
I do get a successful "test" of Sound playback in gnome-sound-properties: System -> Preferences -> Sound then press the Test button for Soundplayback under Sound Events. (gives an audible continuous tone) And I can manually play the startup system sound: Select Sounds tab, then click Play button next to "Log in" sound. However, the sound does not play automatically on startup/Log In. Similarly, the "Log out" sound does not play automatically on shutdown either. In my troubleshooting, I could get a desktop "lockup" to occur by re- playing the sound before the previous play had completed. For instance, shortly after pressing the Play button to play the "Log in" startup sound, if I press Play again it will make the desktop unresponsive (i.e., I can move windows but cannot close gnome-sound- properties nor laun. It isn't just the same sound -- I can get the same lockup to occur by pressing Play for the "Log Out" sound while the "Log in" sound is still playing. Killing esd from a psuedo-terminal (CTRL- ALT-F1) makes the app responsive again. So, the symptom I reported (gdm halts when Log In sound plays on startup), but the root cause (gdm becomes unresponsive due to sound problems) persists. Is there anything else I can do to help identify where the problem might be? Gutsy i386 on HP Pavilion zx5000 (zx5078cl) -- Desktop halts loading when startup sound is played https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86162 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
