no application starts

[Markus Lutzer]

Seems this bug is already filled at
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-session/+bug/49221


Neil Blakey-Milner schrieb:
> On Tue 2006-06-20 (11:32), Markus Lutzer wrote:
>> I used Ubuntu Breezy for several month and upgraded to Dapper on 1th of
>> June. Since this upgrade I face one big problem: Most of the time the
>> system works without any problems but sometimes its not possible to
>> start any new application. This means I can work will the already
>> running applications without any problems but I can't open any new one.
>> After about 10 minutes suddenly all the applications I tried to start
>> shows up. This behavior does not affect terminal tools like top, ps,
>> kill etc. but graphical ones like OpenOffice, gedit etc. and even the
>> selection window of "shutdown" from the gnome menu. When I try to start
>> these application from the terminal, nothing happens, no error messages.
>> I have enough of resources, 1.7 GHz, 1GB RAM and "top" tells me the CPU
>> is about 99% idle and a lot of memory available. Once again, the system
>> works very well and responses quick with the already open applications.
>> Also no interesting messages appear in /var/log/messages. This problem
>> happens every few days but is very annoying especially when I need to
>> set my laptop to standby mode. I'm happy to provide more information if
>> needed and welcome every idea how to fix it.
> 
> If anyone needs additional data points, I also have this problem.
> 
> Killing the session with CTRL-ALT-backspace, running "kill -KILL -1"
> from command line, and logging back in makes things work again.
> 
> I can't reproduce it on command, but I can provide information along
> with Markus.
> 
> Neil