Comment 2 for bug 58641

for instance, when invoking shares-admin as root. when it hangs the stack trace looks like this

#0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0xb73f07f8 in connect () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2 0xb7290d99 in esd_close () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3 0xb7291201 in esd_open_sound () from /usr/lib/libesd.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4 0xb7de9b18 in gnome_config_get_int_with_default_ ()
   from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#5 0xb7dea04b in gnome_sound_connection_get () from /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6 0xb7ed3cf3 in libgnomeui_module_info_get () from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0

so esd seems to be involved.