I had the same symptoms when I tried to open a file in a directory with a lot of files. This kept happening on further opens because that file was now in the "File" dropdown as recently opened. I'm attaching an strace of one of these executions.
** Attachment added: "strace of one of these executions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14593172/strace-gedit.log.bz2 -- [gutsy] gedit is totally unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132874 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
