No answer for four months. In dapper, this problem should be vastly mitigated since esd is not used by default any more. Please reopen this bug if you still encounter problems. Thank you!
** Changed in: esound (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Released -- esound causes desktop session to hang https://launchpad.net/bugs/21915 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs