On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Sadanand Kota wrote: > Hi, > When I try to start Xserver by 'startx', the X hangs after some time. > When I kill it (Ctrl+Alt+Bakspace), I see these messages. > > esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale Unix socket > /tmp/.esd/socket > This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. > Exiting... > > I even deleted /tmp/.esd and tried to start x. But I am getting the same problem.
This is not an X problem as such - it has nothing to do with programming X user interfaces, the internals of the XFree86 X Window server, the xlib library that applications use to communicate with the server, etc... > Any idea? It's something to do with some script files that get executed when you start X. For reasons that seemed got at the time there are many potential script being executed behind the scenes. Window managers and the modern Unix/Linux GUIs like KDE and Gnome get started from these. Since you have problems with esd, you are probably running Gnome. If you got into this situation by installing vendorsupplied software, you should contact your Linux distribution vendor for paid support -- or try the free support in the online forums they undoubtedly have. If you got into this situation by installing third party packages (or from source), you should try something like gnome-list. Look for mailing lists at http://gnome.org/ -Peter _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
