Comment 16 for bug 693073

The problem has become a lot worse for me in yesterday's image of Natty Alpha 2. Compiz has crashed on several occasions and left me no way out other than powering off. When I click on the Ubuntu icon (top left panel), I get a black window with no contents - I think Nautilus has locked although the file manager icon on the sidebar works. Gnome panel menus don't work at all until I have successfully run an app like Firefox. The whole process has become so random that I am at a loss to know how to report it usefully. Sorry!