Sorry, I forgot to mention that the system had been perfectly fine since I gave up on xubuntu-desktop and stuck with my default, gnome-desktop, until I decided to play an flv file in xine. It always tends to happen when there is something graphics intensive that takes place.... Hope it helps
-- dbus-launch hangs at session start waiting on socket output in libxcb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232364 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs