Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:13 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> On Thu, June 1, 2006 10:50 am, Rick Stevens said:
> > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:38 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 12, 2006 10:36 pm, karlp at ourldsfamily.com said:
> >> > I thought this issue was solved. FC5 updated and the problem seemed to go
> >> > away. Yesterday it came back. The panel freezes and gnome apps die if I
> >> access
> >> > the menu. It happes in KDE and xfce, too. So, I've come to the conclusion
> >> that
> >> > it's Xorg. As a matter of fact, it may be even deeper than that as it
> >> doesn't
> >> > solve the problem to do CTRL-ALT-BKSPC. I get a new session, but it goes
> >> back
> >> > into I-don't-wanna-play-nice mode even quicker on the re-login. I have to
> >> > reboot to get a clean session, which hangs after about 5-20 minutes.
> >> >
> >> > Please, any ideas. I've got FC5 installed on my new workstation at work
> >> and
> >> > can't put it into service if this isn't solved. My home PC is the test and
> >> > play box where I hope to solve this.
> >>
> >> Okay, I've figured something out, but the solution evades me, other than
> >> non-use of the offending application. What is it?
> >>
> >> mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060418
> >>
> >> I typically listen to online radio with mplayer. When I run it, the panel
> >> dies
> >> in either gnome, KDE or xfce. Strange but true. I've had KDE up for 3 hours
> >> and then ran mplayer to show my son some WoW vids he created that were on an
> >> older hard disk he was going to format because he couldn't access it in
> >> WinXP-Semi-Pro (yum install kmod-ntfs;mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rmv)
> >>
> >> So, any thoughts now?
> >
> > Which Linux are you running, Karl, and are you fully updated?  I know
> > there were some issues with mplayer on FC5's default gnome.
> 
> FC5, fully updated. I manually run yum update as well as having it 'cron'ed.
> 
> I do have a few extra repos setup:
> 
> [fedora 7 repos]
> freshrpms
> greysector
> livna [3 repos]
> macromedia
> 
> I've worried about things a bit, but last night, exactly at the time I clicked
> 'SEND' on this email, I noticed my sound was also dead and killed the artsd
> daemon, which restarted, and my panels came back to life in KDE. So, things
> are much better, but I'm also not running mplayer to radio stations anymore.

Hmmm.  I don't use mplayer very often.  For radio, I typically use xmms.
There may be an issue with the handling of one of the codecs under
mplayer--particularly if it started life as a Windows codec.  It'd be
interesting if you could specify different stream formats for the
stations and see if one format caused the error.  If so, then I'd really
suspect the codec.

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