Sorry for the late reply. I am running in UNE session most of the time. Once in a while I log into to gnome session for 5 min or so. One problem I noticed is that once I log on to gnome session, the old style menu bar comes along the unity bar. I have to remove the conf files to get it disappear. This need to be somehow taken care of as well. But I still have not found any reason to link the gnome-session log ons and the crashes. It is our duty to help ubuntu make better. We should be thanking you guys left and right. I am a long time debian user, I still prefer to use debian, but I am using ubuntu now so that I can try to do something to the community. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Didier Roche