Comment 7 for bug 8678

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can reproduce this easily by unloading the sound drivers and logging in. It
> seems to be gnome-settings-daemon which gets hung up; if I kill it (repeatedly),
> the session eventually starts up

I have had problems reproducting. Is modprobe -r <sound driver module> enough? I
also removed manually snd_pcm_oss, which was remaining left after I removed
emu10k1 module.

btw what sound card have you tested with?