socket exists

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:00 -0400, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> In trying to start gnome-devel on a 5-STABLE box, when I do a startx,
> I get the full "grey" screen with the X cursor, where it hangs.
> When I exit and check the log I find:
> 
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/tinlizzie.patmedia.net:/tmp/.ICE-unix/666
> esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
> /tmp/.esd/socket
> This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
> Exiting...
> 
> ** (gnome-session:666): WARNING **: Esound failed to start.
> 
> So I remove the socket and try to startx again.  It fails with the same
> error, so it appears that something creates the socket and then something
> else also tries to create without first checking if it exists.
> 
> Any thoughts/ideas on where to look?

Check your session config, and make sure you're not trying to start esd
twice.

Joe

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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