Comment 21 for bug 276094

I just had a very similar problem. gedit was consuming 100% CPU usage every time I started it. I tried removing the config file with no improvement. I then found this bug report and investigated the side pane file browser. This was pointing at a point in the dvb source tree. When I changed this to point elsewhere, the cpu usage reduced to 10% or less. I did not try a reboot before finding the work-around described here.

I am using Ubuntu 9.10. Kernel 2.6.31-17-generic. gedit 2.28.0 on a Samsung NC10 netbook (Intel Atom N270) with 1GB RAM.