Re: Bonobo Activation Server goes to sleep

> The results of doing this with esd in debug mode are striking. The point
> where esd is hanging is where it is trying to close the esd_audio_fd
> file. In the log file, this occurs between the statements "about to
> execute close command" and "close command executed". When esd hangs, the
> "about to execute close command" line gets printed, but the "close
> command executed" line does NOT get printed until I ctrl+c out of esd.
> The log file is available as:
>
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/geoffreyhacker/Logs/esd.log
>
> The close() command seems to be a perfectly ordinary Linux system call.
> Good God, does that mean I have to recompile the kernel?! =0
>

> Finally, I note that whenever esd hangs, if I move it to the background
> and then back to the foreground again, it resumes normally, and the
> sound it was trying to play at the time plays normally! When I try to
> close the Sound Properties dialog box while esd is hung, this will still
> hang the Sound Properties dialog box, but once I move esd to the
> background and then the foreground again, the Sound Properties dialog
> box exits normally as well!
>
> So SOMETHING weird's going on...
>

Well, there are known some problems in 2.4.20 kernel with esd and via chipset. 
What is your hardware and your kernel version?

For example look for:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76603
and
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/779

Does you have the same problems with your gnome 2.2 installation, as I 
remember you have one? 

There are some other thing that I don't understand: 
1. Who writes /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/esd?
2. Did you manually add output "close command executed", because I can't find 
it place in esound/gnome?