I have the same/similar problem. Possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-do/+bug/450852 as well.
The symptom is that gnome-do is running but it's running at 200% CPU and lookups do not work, e.g. if I type "firefox" it stays in raw text mode and does not launch firefox. Killing and restarting gnome-do solves the problem. I have both Start Gnome-do at login and hide window enabled. Some outputs: Top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2536 rala 20 0 344m 35m 18m S 198 0.9 18:48.25 gnome-do $ which gnome-do /usr/bin/gnome-do $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 $ apt-cache policy gnome-do gnome-do: Installed: 0.8.2+dfsg-1 Candidate: 0.8.2+dfsg-1 Version table: *** 0.8.2+dfsg-1 0 500 http://ftp.df.lth.se karmic/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status The aforementioned kill command that Chris instructed does not kill gnome-do successfully (sudo does not help): r...@salporin:~$ ps -ef|grep nome-do rala 2524 2383 0 09:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-do rala 2536 2524 99 09:25 ? 00:36:13 /usr/bin/cli /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe rala 3646 3455 0 09:44 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nome-do r...@salporin:~$ kill -SIGQUIT 2536 r...@salporin:~$ ps -ef|grep gnome-do rala 2524 2383 0 09:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-do rala 2536 2524 99 09:25 ? 00:38:07 /usr/bin/cli /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe rala 3649 3455 0 09:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep gnome-do r...@salporin:~$ kill -SIGQUIT 2524 r...@salporin:~$ ps -ef|grep gnome-do rala 2536 1 99 09:25 ? 00:38:41 /usr/bin/cli /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe rala 3651 3455 0 09:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep gnome-do r...@salporin:~$ kill -SIGQUIT 2536 r...@salporin:~$ ps -ef|grep gnome-do rala 2536 1 99 09:25 ? 00:44:11 /usr/bin/cli /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.exe rala 3756 3455 0 09:48 pts/0 00:00:00 grep gnome-do A normal kill does do the trick however. Just a wild guess (I have no developer knowledge of either Gnome or gnome-do) but could this be a conflict between gnome-do's start at login and Gnome's session recovery? ** Attachment added: "xsession-errors-pre" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37915739/xsession-errors-pre -- Gnome-Do fails to launch fully on gnome login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284254 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