Hi, I'm also having the same problem that you report. Actually I'd already reported the same to this list, some time ago, when using Draper on a Virtual Machine running on windows, now I'm using Edgy on my physical box (Dell Dimension 9200) and the problem ocurrs from time to time. Do you have any idea of what is going wrong? Is a DHCP misconfiguration the cause of the problem? In the meantime I'll try to run the experiment you suggest. Regards, Juan Carlos <div> On 11/19/06, Severin Schoepke <<a href="mailto:severin.schoepke@gmail.com">severin.schoepke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi list! I decided to switch from Windows with the Dapper release. I installed it and all went well. But because it was my first Linux installation that I used for daily work, I messed around and tried lots of stuff, which maybe introduced damage... When Edgy was released, I reformatted the HD and did a clean install of Edgy. I tried to keep this installation clean (only using official repos, no EasyUbuntu, no Automatix and so on). But I have a weird problem with both installations: Sometimes Gnome doesn't allow the creation of new windows: When I'm working and want to start a new app or open a folder, it happens from time to time that the app/folder is not started/opened. There's a new entry in the task bar in the likes of 'Mozilla Firefox wird gestartet...' (FF is being started in english) that just disappears after a few seconds. I then can't start applications, be it via the start menu, a panel launcher, a starter on the desktop or from a terminal that is already open... Then suddenly, after 10 minutes or so, the apps finally start/the windows get opened... This is really annoying, and a fix for it is to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and restart X... And I find it strange that noone else reported this problem, I can't believe I'm the only one suffering from this... As I said it happenend on both installations (the probably messed up Dapper and the clean Edgy)... I use a Dell Inspirion laptop with 512 megs RAM and with a GeForce FX5200. The binary drivers (nvidia-glx) from the official repo are installed. Most of the time I have quite a few apps running (Thunderbird, Gaim, Rythmbox, Tomboy and a Terminal). And I usually don't shut down the computer but use hibernation instead... I have no idea where the problem lies: I suspect it could be a X problem, or a window manager problem or maybe a memory problem. But normally everything is working (X and the window manager make no problems other than that) and 512 megs of RAM is not much, but it should be enough and the RAM is fine (I memtested it)... Does anyone have an idea where the problem lies or how to fix it? TIA! cheers, Severin -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>