I log in to Gnome from xdm. Most of the time, after giving me an xterm, it pauses for a few seconds before starting Gnome proper (i.e. giving me the panel, background and icons).
I know this is something to do with esd because when it pauses `Unable to bind port 16001' appears in ~/.xsession-errors. When it doesn't pause, it does not appear, and: 13:13 ~$ netstat -lnp | grep 16001 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:16001 0.0.0.0:* 1057/esd Sound works perfectly anyway. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a known cure? (I'm using SBLive! Value, if that's any help). Tom