Esound causing me to freeze!

[Chris077]

My initial problem was that my custom logout sound was not playing when I logged out of Ubuntu, so I searched the forums for similar problem. In one of the threads someone said to install the esound package. The thread's creator replied that that worked, so I myself installed the esound package by:

sudo apt-get install esound

It installed, so when I logged out and restarted it did not fix the problem. Now my problem is even worse! When I log in and try to launch any program (Terminal, Firefox, Appearance Preferences), all of Ubuntu freezes up. Before I installed esound and restarted, I had no problems.

Is there a way to uninstall the esound package? (Remember that I cannot access the terminal when Ubuntu is loaded otherwise it will freeze before the window even pops-up.

I am running v8.04 of ubuntu.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

[Chris077]

My problem has been solved! I entered Recovery Mode and removed it through there using:

sudo apt-get remove esound

[unebaguettesvp]

i am having this same problem too!! does anyone have any ideas? i uninstalled pulseaudio so installing pulseaudio-esound-compat is not an option. i would like to have system sounds too. anyone know what to do?

[unebaguettesvp]

fixed my problem with esound!

sudo gedit /etc/esound/esd.conf

change auto-spawn from 0 to 1. then restart.

hope that helps somebody!

[dcstar]

fixed my problem with esound!

sudo gedit /etc/esound/esd.conf

change auto-spawn from 0 to 1. then restart.

hope that helps somebody!

Doesn't help on my 64 bit 8.04 system - with esound installed I get hang-ups and still no shutdown sound.

Must be something with the particular sound hardware some of us have.... L-(