Has anybody else seen this? Every once in a while, I'll click the "Email" icon, the load shoots up to 1 and nothing happens. If I kill the instance of bonobo-activation-server that is sitting at the top of my "top" list, Evolution pops up. I have also seen this when trying to start a new shell window. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to this. It just happens occasionally, although, I have seen it happen more regularly when the processor is under a high load. (which makes things tough, when the reason I wanted to open a new shell window was to kill off the process that was hogging the CPU :-) --wpd