I believe I am experiencing this exact same issue. I am on Hardy Heron alpha 3, fully updated. Note that sound works fine on this machine. Here is the output of gdb after pressing control-C during the long period of time when it hangs:
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. [Switching to Thread 0xb6d016b0 (LWP 29875)] ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- 0xb7fa8410 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) (gdb) thread apply all bt full Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6d016b0 (LWP 29875)): #0 0xb7fa8410 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0xb7569c79 in fork () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #2 0xb7632034 in fork () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 No symbol table info available. #3 0xb708d1b4 in esd_open_sound () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7e6e3cf in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 No symbol table info available. #5 0x00000000 in ?? () No symbol table info available. -- xchat-gnome momentarily hangs just after connection established https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99157 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
