Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@eunetnorge.no> writes:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> > I nuked basically everything in the xmms depend chain and then the
> > problem went away for me. I had to rebuild mozilla and a few other
> > things, but so far my results have been good.
> 
> That's what I did -- and still, as mentioned in another thread (pun
> not intended) trying to run xmms causes a total lockup of the machine.
> Is anybody successfully running the new pthreads code on a multi-CPU
> machine?  It just occurred to me that it might be interesting to
> disable one of my CPUs...

I'm running xmms on a one CPU box, so your problem may very well be real...