I also have this problem. on netbook 9.10.
The problem only seemed to occur after enabling ubuntuone service. I think ubuntuone screwed something up.
uname -a results: Linux hpmini 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
I also have this problem. on netbook 9.10.
The problem only seemed to occur after enabling ubuntuone service. I think ubuntuone screwed something up.
uname -a results:
Linux hpmini 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux