no application starts

[Neil Blakey-Milner]

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
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