William L. Maltby wrote: > I feel it might be related to Jim's problem. I feel it might be a bug. > > Can anybody reproduce? I think the T'bird step is coincidental. I think > any sound played as another user should reproduce it. Hmmm ... I might > be assuming to much if I assume another user is significant. > I don't see why the desktop owner would be the only one that can play a sound. But in any case have you checked to see if the sound device is locked by another process? When I have sound issues I usually run lsof | grep /dev/dsp to see what, if anything is using the sound card and kill it. To me it sounds like thunderbird from the other user is accessing the sound card directly, perhaps preventing other apps from accessing it. Some desktop setups include a sound daemon like esd or karts(?), to facilitate multiple things accessing the sound card simultaneously, but I'm not sure what their capabilities/limitations are as I rarely if ever use them. nate