GenuineXP
July 4th, 2008, 03:26 PM
I'm having quite an annoying problem I think may be linked to the PulseAudio woes introduced in Hardy.
After experiencing media problems (usually due to Pulse) such as Banshee locking up after watching a YouTube video in Firefox, the Gnome Terminal won't launch properly (I usually launch it in an attempt to kill and restart Pulse). It opens, the window remains blank, and the menu bar remains solid gray. In short, it becomes unresponsive. At this point, I know I'm screwed. :-P
Next, I'll try killing X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). It works, and GDM presents the login screen. Upon logging in... well, nothing. It takes about two minutes to see the outline of a broken warning dialog, and never gets all the way. I'm forced to kill X again and restart the computer from the login screen.
This has happened on both my desktop and my brother's desktop (both running Hardy). The hardware is very different, so I don't think that's the issue here.
Any ideas? This is almost making our systems unusable (since Pulse seems to act up a lot).
Thanks.
After experiencing media problems (usually due to Pulse) such as Banshee locking up after watching a YouTube video in Firefox, the Gnome Terminal won't launch properly (I usually launch it in an attempt to kill and restart Pulse). It opens, the window remains blank, and the menu bar remains solid gray. In short, it becomes unresponsive. At this point, I know I'm screwed. :-P
Next, I'll try killing X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). It works, and GDM presents the login screen. Upon logging in... well, nothing. It takes about two minutes to see the outline of a broken warning dialog, and never gets all the way. I'm forced to kill X again and restart the computer from the login screen.
This has happened on both my desktop and my brother's desktop (both running Hardy). The hardware is very different, so I don't think that's the issue here.
Any ideas? This is almost making our systems unusable (since Pulse seems to act up a lot).
Thanks.