[Glastonbury] Realplayer conflict?

[Sean Miller]

Anybody got any ideas on this problem I'm having....

Since I half-upgraded to Ubuntu's Hoary release (I don't think it worked 
100% - so I have a sort of Warty Hedgehog at present) when I boot up 
Realplayer will not work... it just hangs...

If I leave it a while, say a day or so, it starts working...

Now I'm thinking that this may be a resource conflict... something's 
grabbing something that Realplayer needs and not letting go, hence 
Realplayer sits there trying to access that resource over and over again 
- hence the hang.

Question is: how do I find out what this "thing" is?

Or, if this is barking up the completely wrong tree, anybody got any 
other ideas as to why this isn't working?

This happens regardless of whether I'm running realplayer from the 
command line (realplay) or embedded video or audio in a webpage (through 
Firefox plug-in)... thankfully was working last night for a BBC News 
webcast I wanted to watch...

Sean