I have been having intermittent problems using Rhythmbox with ESD on my laptop playing MP3's. Every now and then, and not at a regular interval, I would get an error message when rhythmbox would go to switch songs. The error was "Could not open resource for writing", and then another one that said "Could not pause playback". This was quite annoying, as I had to switch over to rhythmbox and start the playback manually, and then sometimes it would repeat the same sequence of errors, again, randomly.
Poking around gentoo's forums site proved to be no help, but I did find a posting through google on a redhat bug listing that had steps to reproduce the problem. The bug noted that turning off the option in gnome-sound-properties to "enable sound server startup" was one of the steps to get this to faithfully reproduce. Well, taking the opposite to be true, I turned this option on for my sound properties and things seem to be working fine so far. It's been a few hours, and no issues as of yet. Even though it was random before, I could pretty reliable a few of those errors every two or so hours.
We'll just have to wait and see if this fixes it.
Posted by doug at May 27, 2005 03:10 PMI think I had recommended enabling the sound server on login. My advice may have come in an intermediate form of "start esd by hand, so it's always running, then see if it still happens".
Posted by: john at May 31, 2005 09:33 AMI had put esdsound in my default run level so it was started upon boot, and that seemed to alleviate the problem to a degree, but it didn't fix it. So far, this solution has been working well for me.
Posted by: doug at May 31, 2005 09:56 AM