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control-center package

  1. Bug #8678
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 8678

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > 1. Log out of GNOME
> > 2. lsmod | grep '^snd' | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -n1 sudo rmmod
> > 3. Log into GNOME
>
> No problem by doing that here. Nothing in ~/.xsession-errors, the volume applet
> is just set to 0 ..

It might be a race condition of some sort, given that a deadlock is occurring.
It might also be affected by the configuration. Maybe try with a new uid?