[LAU] X, gnome-panel, jackd, ardour/rosegarden weirdness

[John Anderson]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 23:25 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> I want to share one of those weird things that may save somebody's hair
> follicles from excessive trauma:
> 
> Today I had a power failure. When my machine booted up again, I was
> finding weirdness with ardour, rosegarden, jackd and X. On startup or
> shutdown or rosegarden and/or ardour, X would stop responding to
> keyboard and mouse clicks, but would still move the mouse cursor. Ardour
> was still talking nicely to the BCF, but X was totally dead. I could ssh
> into the box and kill the X server.
> 
> I eventually tracked it down to gnome-panel talking to
> evolution-data-server. I've just rebuilt gnome-panel without that
> capability, and stability has returned.

Not quite. It happened again. This time it seemed to be xfwm4. So I
upgraded that, and things seem to be better. Well, jack + rosegarden +
ardour have been active since about 9:30 this morning with no trouble.

bye
John