I can confirm this. I was searching all over for a bug with random GNOME app freezes, and came across this one. My desktop is (was) currently frozen, but as soon as I ran killall esd it all came back to life.
I'm running the 32-bit version of Gutsy on the latest kernel, and I get very similar results to the above. -- [gutsy] esd makes diverse gnome apps freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125308 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs