kino, xine, mplayer, totem: X11 error: BadAlloc

[NoOp]

On 05/14/2009 02:29 AM, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> 
>> I've had fun playing around with pulse... but in the end I finally had
>> to get some work done & on this system just blew out everything
>> pulseaudio related. 
> 
> That's interesting and I was going to try to do that too. However, the 
> first message of Synaptic Package Manager, when I removed pulseaudio was 
> that ubuntu-desktop would have to be removed too. Looking there, makes 
> me reluctant to do so.:
> 
>     This package depends on all of the packages in the Ubuntu desktop
>     system
>     It is also used to help ensure proper upgrades, so it is recommended
>     that it not be removed.
> 
> So what precisely did you do to scrag pulseaudio?

Let it remove ubuntu-desktop. ubuntu-desktop is nothing more than a meta
package and it does no harm to remove it - I run several systems without
it. Just be sure to put it back before you do an upgrade to the next
version.