Re: gnome-panel hang
It's funny that you mention sounds. The problem appeared just after
enabling desktop sounds with ESD mixing, then rebooting. In FC5 I
opened a bug against gnome-terminal hanging up during copy/paste. This
led to the realization that gnome-panel was locking up. I tracked it
down to ESD sound being enabled
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329647#c6). I migrated to
FC6 and the problem went away, so the bug was never resolved. Looks
like whatever was causing the problem in FC5 is back again, but wasn't
in FC6. Could this be related to the gstreamer re-entrant code bug that
is killing pidgin (it dies just before making the "login sound"?
Andy