Strange behavior in Ubuntu 6.10

[Jan Moren]

Could you open a terminal and run one of them from there? That way we'll
see if there's an error message from it.



ons 2006-11-08 klockan 13:23 -0600 skrev 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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