I have exactly the same Problem (from time to time) on a (old) Desktop- Machine here.
I have the 'nvidia'-driver installed. Could this be a problem ? Last time I tried some apps with strace like above, looked around in the dir-tree and made some comments in a text file. (konsole and kate, which I use with GNOME, were already open) and - surpise - the windows of the apps I launched aproximately 10 Minutes ago appeared suddenly. After this all worked normal again. Maybe some timeout and retry occured somewere ? This is what I get (when running normal) : ls -l /tmp/.ICE-unix insgesamt 0 srwxrwxrwx 1 kurt kurt 0 2006-08-08 12:45 4836 srwx------ 1 kurt kurt 0 2006-08-08 12:46 dcop5266-1155033980 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axf | grep 4836 4836 ? Ss 0:03 \_ /usr/bin/gnome-session 7577 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ grep 4836 ... no x-session-manager but gnome-session, which I think should be normal. -- Can't start programs after resume from suspend/hibernate https://launchpad.net/bugs/52200 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs