Comment 13 for bug 49008

I have exactly the same problem, and actually reported a duplicate bug. However, it turned out that the problem was not reproduced when I logged into a different user account on the same computer. Have you tried this?

For me at least the problem must be due to the configuration of my own user account. I suspect this is because of some old config files in my home directory. The Ubuntu installation started out as Hoary Hedgehog back in 2005 and I have upgraded it several times all the way to Lucid. The other user account, for which I cannot reproduce the problem was created around Hardy times I think. Do you all have installations that was first installed way back?