I've just recalled that in 2006 I observed somewhat similar problem with accessing menu in OpenOffice. But it was not that severe. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395354 for details. Maybe, they are related (that bug was about inappropriate signal handling, afair).
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