Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus 1.0.4 release

[John Harper <jsh pixelslut com>]

Kevin Vandersloot writes:
|I don't think this has been fixed, but I've been using cvs nautilus with
|Changelog version 1.4633 and I'm getting momentary hangs related to the
|sound code. If I turn off sound previewing the hangs go away. I've been
|fooling around with the profiler and it looks like the offending
|function is nautilus_sound_can_play_sound. Another issue that might be
|relevant is that I have GNOME not start up the sound server. I opened
|bug #8323 about this. This seems to me to be a bit of a show-stopper.

I had this problem as well. I fixed it by removing the `-terminate'
clause from the `spawn_options' line in /etc/esd.conf

This means that the esd client library will only need to try to start
esd once, avoiding the intermittent hangs when it tries to start it
repeatedly

(I tried to find a better way to fix this, but the esd code isn't
exactly crystal-clear. I'm not convinced that calling esd_open_sound ()
followed by esd_close () multiple times is the best solution, though I
don't know of a better one..)

	John