Pecular reactions with Rawhide installation

Stan Bubrouski stan at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Feb 22 20:49:37 UTC 2005


John Ellson wrote:
> CPU temp seems like a good indicator that some process has gotten stuck 
> in a loop and is using 100% cpu.
> Using top will usually show the culprit.
> 
> Last time that was happenning to me it was /usr/bin/esd.   It is 
> impossible to "rpm -e esound" because everything
> claims to depend on it, so my solution was to "mv /usr/bin/esd 
> /usr/bin/esd.broken"  and reboot.   Sound seems to
> work much better now.
> 
> John
> 

It amazes me to see all the depencies on ESD.  Most of the alleged 
depencies are apps that have optional ESD support (which can be turned 
off upon recompilation).  When is this abomination finally going to be 
killed for good?

-sb




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