Comment 12 for bug 347444

@David -- although the application should not block on the OSD service, the fact is that the service is hanging for no reason for periods of a minute. Indeed I just had a recurrance here where it hung indefinatly. It seems to trigger bad behaviour in xchat at least which causes problems for something more important which triggers gnome-terminal to go non-responsive too (and as far as I know its not using OSD at all). I suspect OSD is doing some kind of X grab over the period it is dead.

For this recurrance OSD hung for over 2 minutes at which point i used VT-1 to grab a core off it and killed it, the machine resumed function and a _heap_ of messages came out. So many that they are still coming out now some 4 minutes after I killed it. I attach the coredump in the hope it is useful; from a karmic machine.