SOLVED iTunes freeze issue by DISABLING "NOW PLAYING" in IM client!!!

SOLVED (for me). I have been scouring posts/forums for three weeks trying to resolve this. I finally stumbled across a suggestion that WORKED! This sounds crazy--I disregarded it, but was willing to try anything...
My IM client (Trillain & Gtalk) was trying to ping iTunes for the "Now Playing" status option. The moment I turned that off everything went back to normal. Cannot believe what a relief this is.
I'm sure other are out there trying to resolve this issue that cropped up once 10.2 was released. I hope it ends some others' frustrations as it did mine.

Hi jasonwryan,
Your thread helps a lot. I saw a lot of posts but not this one.
This workaround is fine for me to wait the fix.
Thanks a lot
Workaround :
It seems the problem might be linked to transparent items like background.
As explained in the above thread :
According to the bug report the nVidia driver is freaking out and creating too many events, which causes an event buffer in Xorg to overflow.  It works OK with the older Xorg, though.
So the temporary solution is to downgrade 3 packages.
Install the tool to downgrade
> yaourt -Sy downgrade
Downgrade
Note the item number can change
> downgrade xf86-input-evdev
Hit "s" key
Choose 2 (xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz)
> downgrade xorg-server
Hit "s" key
Choose 1 (xorg-server-1.9.4.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz)
> downgrade xorg-server-common
Hit "s" key
Choose 1 (xorg-server-common-1.9.4.901-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz)
Be carefull : don't update these 3 packages when updating your system (pacman -Syu) since it is not fixed.
Last edited by shefla (2011-04-27 22:36:37)

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