This also happens to me, and when it does, I have to restart thunderbird
before I can send a new message. So in some sense, when it happens, it
is reproducible. It happens most reliably when I hit ctl + m and hold
control while the window is popping up. Then it gets stuck, and I
basically have t
This situation has happened to me twice. I'm using GNOME, Amarok 2, and
I have update-manger set to check for updates but not to install them.
I have the same symptom with the thousand ICE-unix file descriptors
being opened. I just left my machine on for one night, with the focus
on amarok. I re
Another interesting tidbit. I went to my home directory, and ran 'ls
-ltr' to see the file I just put there. Sitting in front of it was a
file called .xsession-errors. That was suspicious, since xsession-
manager is the process that is flipping out. Looking at the contents,
it seems that all ki
I did an apt-get update and upgrade, and the problem went away. It must
have been a buggy version of amarok 2 or compiz or xsession-manager or
Qt or something. Is this still a problem for others?
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x-session manager eats 100% CPU, nautilus won't start, applications won't start
https://bugs.lau