gnome-panel freezes in gutsy

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Guido Van Hoecke said on 23-10-07 18:29:
> Since upgrading to gutsy, gnome-panel frequently freezes completely. It uses 80 to 95% of the cpu it is running in. Luckily I run a dual core machine.
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> I can only kill the X-server using ctrl-alt-backspace to recover from this lockout.
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> Am I the only one to experience this?

Done some digging: esd (sound) would be the culprit.
I disabled it now.
Hope this fixes it.

Guido
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> Comments and suggestions most welcome.
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> Guido
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