I have the same problem with rhythmbox, even when Samba shares are not mounted. I can stop the service (/etc/init.d/samba stop), and it will still happen. It's not until I disable the samba service in Administration->Services and reboot that the problem is solved.
I don't have music added off of a samba share either. VMware also freezes on File->Open, and I have never added a file off of samba shares to VMware. One time, my GNOME desktop also refused to start. Samba is freezing a lot of apps. dmesg: [82755.018586] smb_add_request: request [ffff81000b51fe40, mid=171] timed out! [82785.102403] smb_add_request: request [ffff81000b51fe40, mid=172] timed out! NFS seems to have similar problems. "Unmounting remote filesystems..." will freeze at reboot. Occasionally, the samba service will take 20 minutes to init.d restart as well. -- rhythmbox freezes on startup when samba share not available https://launchpad.net/bugs/31122 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
