Xorg Hangs-was Gnome-panel hangs

[Rick Stevens]

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.

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