What were you doing when the application crashed?
I tired to run Chess from the Games menu, then this dialog came up


Distribution: Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
Gnome Release: 2.19.5 2007-07-11 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1

System: Linux 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Human
Icon Theme: Human

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0



----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
A handler is already registered for the path starting with path[0] = "org"
***MEMORY-WARNING***: glchess[8650]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program
ImportError: could not import gnomecanvas
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ImportError: could not import gnomecanvas