I've had exactly the same problem on my system at work. Ubuntu 8.04, with nfs mounted home directory (red hat EL5 nfs server) and nis served by solaris 9 host.
I don't know if these problems are related or not, but I often have to "touch" the .Xauthority file to allow X client apps to display if they've been launched from other hosts.
Virtual box (2.0.4) also aborts (seemingly at random) and I wonder whether its something to do with filesystem notification event issues with NFS.
I've had exactly the same problem on my system at work. Ubuntu 8.04, with nfs mounted home directory (red hat EL5 nfs server) and nis served by solaris 9 host.
I don't know if these problems are related or not, but I often have to "touch" the .Xauthority file to allow X client apps to display if they've been launched from other hosts.
Virtual box (2.0.4) also aborts (seemingly at random) and I wonder whether its something to do with filesystem notification event issues with NFS.