This is probably not a galaxy problem at all, however it is manifesting itself in the history pane of galaxy. The history widgets don't expand -- everything else works fine. The relevant javascript error looks to be: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'init' of undefined init_history_items galaxy.base.js:468 updater history:32 jQuery.extend.ready jquery.js:392 DOMContentLoaded jquery.js:745 I saw a previous post which is related to an update of galaxy, however, I haven't updated galaxy, but rather my OS (in fact the problem occurs in Firefox/Chrome; I'm ubuntu 11.04). Creating a new user doesn't help, restarting server doesn't help. Any thoughts on this, and once again I apologize for the fact that this isn't galaxy per se. jim