Description of problem: esd runaway process


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
esound-1:0.2.37-1.fc7

How reproducible: Every reboot


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Reboot into 2.6.21-rc3
2.  All is well
3.  after an hour of work: email (thunderbird), web browsing (firefox), etc.
  
Actual results:

Snapshot of w:
[root@mozart log]# w
 20:25:18 up  2:34,  1 user,  load average: 2.74, 2.43, 2.21
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
kaune    pts/1    :0.0             17:53    0.00s  0.04s  1.51s gnome-terminal

nothing else is going on except this web browser entering the bugzilla data.

Snapshot of top:

top - 20:21:43 up  2:30,  1 user,  load average: 2.21, 2.17, 2.10
Tasks: 140 total,   4 running, 135 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 17.6%us, 82.4%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1036268k total,   749316k used,   286952k free,    48760k buffers
Swap:  2015992k total,        0k used,  2015992k free,   515148k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 3687 kaune     25   0  3716 1688  980 R 98.5  0.2 142:23.29 esd                
 3700 kaune     15   0 39464  14m  10m R  0.7  1.4   0:01.32 gnome-terminal     
 3574 root      15   0  107m  20m 7756 S  0.3  2.0   1:12.17 Xorg               
 3663 kaune     15   0 12664 4132 3264 S  0.3  0.4   0:17.76 at-spi-registry    
 4622 root      15   0  2192 1008  772 R  0.3  0.1   0:00.02 top                
    1 root      15   0  2128  632  544 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.47 init               
...

esd is running full tilt and no real warning.   I have looked in
/var/log/messages and do not know where else to get a clue as to why it has run
away.

Expected results:
Obviously, it is not expected to be the cause of a 100% cpu utilization.

Additional info:
I am fully up to date as far as yum update provides at this writing.   This has
been occuring for at least the last week.   My solution is to kill -TERM the
pid- but ...

My system is the Fedora development on a P4 2.4 GHz  with 1Gb RAM.   I am not
running the distributed kernel, but rather a "pure" 2.6.21-rc3 kernel, because
so far, I have issues with my hda, hdb and sata_via sda, sdb and scsi drive sdc
being found properly.  (all are found as sd? and not as my setup expects, hence
the boot panics)   Naturally, this is a whole other issue I want to figure out
and will file under a separate bug).