Strange behavior in Ubuntu 6.10

[Juan Carlos Becerra Irene]

Sorry ... I forgot to say that the applications that disappear after opening
them: Nautilus, Gaim and some in the "System" menu.

On 11/8/06, Juan Carlos Becerra Irene <jcarlos10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm a new Ubuntu user with not much experience using Linux (I used Fedora
> before but not extensively).
>
> I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and recently updated to 6.10.
>
> The problem I have is this:
>
> 1. I'm working on a terminal (trying to set up subversion).
> 2. Then, when I try to open some applications they seem to open but after
> a while they just disappear.
> 3. I run 'ps aux' from the terminal and I can see the applications
> running, but nothing in the GUI.
> 4. When I restart the computer, everything works again.
> 5. Sometimes the problem is even worse because everything is freezed and I
> cannot shutdown/restart the computer.
>
> Has anybody had a problem like this before?
>
> Any clue of what could be wrong with my system?
>
> Regards,
> Juan Carlos
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